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

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

Adele E. Clarke ... [et al.], eds

Duke University Press, c2010

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [407] - 487) and index

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The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War, the first "social transformation of American medicine." Then, in an ongoing process called medicalization, the jurisdiction of medicine began expanding, redefining certain areas once deemed moral, social, or legal problems (such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s, dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced into biomedicalization, the second major transformation of American medicine. This volume offers in-depth analyses and case studies along with the groundbreaking essay in which the editors first elaborated their theory of biomedicalization.Contributors. Natalie Boero, Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer R. Fishman, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Kelly Joyce, Jonathan Kahn, Laura Mamo, Jackie Orr, Elianne Riska, Janet K. Shim, Sara Shostak

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Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Biomedicalization: A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. Fishman 1 Part I. Theoretical and Historical Framings 1. 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 47 2. Charting (Bio)medicine and (Bio)medicalization in the United States, 1980-present / Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim 88 3. From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization: U.S. Healthscapes and Iconography, circa 1890-Present / Adele E. Clarke 104 4. Gender and Medicalization and Biomedicalization Theories / Elianne Riska 147 Part II. Case Studies: Focus on Difference 5. Fertility, Inc.: Consumption and Subjectification in U.S. Lesbian Reproductive Practices / Laura Mamo 173 6. The Body as Image: An Examination of the Economic and Political Dynamics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Difference / Kelly Joyce 197 7. The Stratified Biomedicalization of Heart Disease: Expert and Lay Perspectives on Racial and Class Inequality / Janet K. Shim 218 8. Marking Populations and Persons at Risk: Molecular Epidemiology and Environmental Health / Sara Shostak 242 9. Surrogate Markers and Surrogate Marketing in Biomedicine: The Regulatory Etiology and Commercial Progression of "Ethnic" Drug Development / Jonathan Kahn 263 Part III. Focus on Enhancement 10. The Making of Viagra: The Biomedicalization of Sexual Dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman 289 11. Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure / Natalie Boero 307 12. Breast Cancer Risk as Disease: Biomedicalizing Risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket 331 13. Biopsychiatry and the Informatics of Diasnosis: Governing Mentalities / Jackie Orr 353 Epilogue: Thoughts on Biomedicalization in Its Traditional Travels / Adele E. Clarke 380 References 407 About the Contributors 485 Index 487

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