Biomedicine as culture : instrumental practices, technoscientific knowledge, and new modes of life
This collection of essays brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, history, sociology and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its material, epistemic and social implications
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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New York : Routledge,
c2007
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Routledge studies in science, technology and society
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| Schlagworte: | Medicine Medical anthropology Social medicine Philosophy, Medical Sociology, Medical Anthropology, Cultural Culture |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (vi, 251 p) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s) Stefan BeckMetaphors of medicine and the culture of healing: historical perspectives / Jakob Tanner
- Medicine as practice and culture: the analysis of border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies Gesa Lindemann
- The future is now: locating biomarkers for dementia Margaret Lock
- Embodied action, enacted bodies: the example of hypoglycaemia Annemarie Mol and John Law
- Sociotechnical anatomy: technology, space, and body in the MRI unit Regula Valérie Burri
- Risk and safety in the operating theater: an ethnographic study of sociotechnical practices Cornelius Schubert
- Genomic susceptibility as an emergent form of life? genetic testing, identity, and the remit of medicine Nikolas Rose
- Susceptible individuals and risky rights: dimensions of genetic responsibility Thomas Lemke
- "Pop genes" : an investigation of "the gene" in popular parlance Barbara Duden and Silja Samerski
- Genetics and its publics: crafting genetic literacy and identity in the early twenty-first century Karen-Sue Taussig
- Constructing the digital patient: patient organizations and the development of health websites Nelly Oudshoorn and André Somers
- Epilogue: Indeterminate lives, demands, relations: emergent bioscapes Joseph Dumit and Regula Valérie Burri.