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" Biomedicalization : "
Adele E. Clarke [and others], eds.
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847058
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Biomedicalization : : technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S. /\ Adele E. Clarke [and others], eds.
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Durham, NC :: Duke University Press,, ©2010.
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ix, 498 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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0822345536
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: 0822345706
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: 9780822345534
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: 9780822345701
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-487) and index.
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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.
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The editors of this collection argue that we are in the midst of another major transformation in American medicine, 'biomedicalization', the result of dramatic, largely techno-scientific changes in the organization and practices of biomedicine since the mid-1980s.
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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 innovations-- Social aspects.
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Medical technology-- Social aspects.
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Reproduktionsmedizin
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Sexualmedizin
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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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United States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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610.28/4
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RA418.5.M4B556 2010
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WA 31
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Clarke, Adele E.
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