Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

ISBN-13: 9780415957984 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 260 str.

Regula Valerie Burri; Josepch Dumit

Opis

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its epistemic, material, and social implications. The essays look at the ways new biomedical knowledge is constructed within hospitals and academic settings and at how this knowledge changes perceptions, material arrangements, and social relations, not only within clinics and scientific communities, but especially once it is diffused into a broader cultural context.

Spis treści

Foreword.  Introduction  Regula Valérie Burri and Joseph Dumit  I. Social and Cultural Studies of Biomedicine  1. Medicalizing Culture(s) or Culturalizing Medicine(s)  Stefan Beck  2. Metaphors of Medicine and the Culture of Healing: Historical Perspectives  Jakob Tanner  3. Medicine as Practice and Culture: The Analysis of Border Regimes and the Necessity of a Hermeneutics of Physical Bodies  Gesa Lindemann  II. Epistemic Practices and Material Culture(s)  4. The Future Is Now: Locating Biomarkers for Dementia  Margaret Lock  5. Embodied Action, Enacted Bodies: The Example of Hypoglycaemia  Annemarie Mol and John Law  6. Sociotechnical Anatomy  Regula Valérie Burri  7. Risk and Safety in the Operating Theater: An Ethnographic Study of Socio-technical Practices  Cornelius Schubert  III. Biomedical Knowledge in Context  8. Genomic Susceptibility as an Emergent Form of Life? Genetic Testing, Identity, and the Remit of Medicine  Nikolas Rose  9. Susceptible Individuals and Risky Rights: Dimensions of Genetic Responsibility  Thomas Lemke  10. "Pop Genes": An Investigation of "the Gene" in Popular Parlance  Barbara Duden and Silja Samerski  11. Genetics and Its Publics: Crafting Genetic Literacy and Identity in the Early Twenty-first Century  Karen-Sue Taussig  12. Constructing the Digital Patient: Patient Organizations and the Development of Health Web Sites  Nelly Oudshoorn.  Epilogue: Indeterminate Lives, Demands, Relations: Emergent Bioscapes  Joseph Dumit and Regula Valérie Burri