Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2010
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Essays describing how dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced since the mid-1980s in biomedicalization, the second transformation of American medicine.
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- Title
- Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.
- Author
- Adele E Clarke
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2010
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822345706
- ISBN 13
- 9780822345701
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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About the Author
Adele E. Clarke is Professor of Sociology and History of Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
Laura Mamo is Associate Professor at the Health Equity Institute for Research, Practice, and Policy at San Francisco State University.
Jennifer Ruth Fosket is a principal and founder of Social Green, where she does research and writes on the intersections of health, the built environment, and sustainability.
Jennifer R. Fishman is Assistant Professor in the Social Studies of Medicine Department at McGill University.
Janet K. Shim is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco.
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