| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 498 pages) : illustrations |
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e-Duke books scholarly collection
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| 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 |
| Summary |
Collection of essays that considers the impact of biomedical technologies--MRI scans, assisted reproduction, and specialized drugs--on the social construction of gender |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Sociology, Medical
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Biotechnology -- ethics
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Health Policy
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Marketing of Health Services -- ethics
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects -- United States
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Medical innovations -- Social aspects -- United States
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Medical technology -- Social aspects -- United States
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Biomedizin
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Biotechnology -- Social aspects.
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Ersatzmutterschaft
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Genetik
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Gesundheitspolitik
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Gesundheitswesen
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Health and Fitness.
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Liposuktion
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MEDICAL -- Instruments & Supplies.
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Medical innovations -- Social aspects.
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Medical technology -- Social aspects.
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Reproduktionsmedizin
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Sexualmedizin
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United States |
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Clarke, Adele E
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| LC no. |
2010011136 |
| ISBN |
0822391252 |
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1283065061 |
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6613065064 |
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9780822391258 |
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9781283065061 |
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9786613065063 |
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