An edition of Biomedicalization (2010)

Biomedicalization

technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.

Biomedicalization
Adele Clarke, Adele Clarke
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An edition of Biomedicalization (2010)

Biomedicalization

technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.

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Pages
498

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Biomedicalization: technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.
2010, Duke University Press
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Table of Contents

Biomedicalization : technoscientific transformations of health, illness, and U.S biomedicine / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. Fishman
Charting (bio)medicine and (bio)medicalization in the United States, 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim
From the rise of medicine to biomedicalization : U.S. healthscapes and iconography, circa 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke
Gender and medicalization and biomedicalization theories / Elianne Riska
Fertility, Inc. : consumption and subjectification in U.S. lesbian reproductive practices / Laura Mamo
The body as image : an examination of the economic and political dynamics of magnetic resonance imaging and the construction of difference / Kelly Joyce
The stratified biomedicalization of heart disease : expert and lay perspectives on racial and class inequality / Janet K. Shim
Marking populations and persons at risk : molecular epidemiology and environmental health / Sara Shostak
Surrogate markers and surrogate marketing in biomedicine : the regulatory etiology and commercial progression of "ethnic" drug development / Jonathan Kahn
The making of Viagra : the biomedicalization of sexual dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman
Bypassing blame : bariatric surgery and the case of biomedical failure / Natalie Boero
Breast cancer risk as disease : biomedicalizing risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket
Biopsychiatry and the informatics of diagnosis : governing mentalities / Jackie Orr.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Durham, NC

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
610.28/4
Library of Congress
RA418.5.M4 B556 2010, RA418.5.M4B556 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
498

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24124500M
ISBN 13
9780822345534, 9780822345701
LCCN
2010011136
OCLC/WorldCat
564132851

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OL15987940W

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