Biomedicine as Culture (eBook, ePUB)

Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life
Redaktion: Burri, Regula Valérie; Dumit, Joseph

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. November 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135905743
• Artikelnr.: 38245483

Autorenporträt

Regula Valérie Burri is an affiliated research fellow at Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich. Her doctoral thesis, "Doing Images: Zur Praxis medizinischer Bilder" (forthcoming), explores the social and cultural implications of medical imaging. She has been a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow and holds appointments with several Swiss universities. Her research interests focus on the relationship between science, technology, and society. She is the coauthor of "Social Studies of Scientific Images and Visualization," in Ed Hackett et al., The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies (with Joseph Dumit; MIT Press). Joseph Dumit is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the program in Science and Technology Studies at University of California, Davis. His research interests are the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; medical anthropology; and social studies. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity (Princeton University Press, 2004); and the coeditor of Cyborgs & Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies (with Gary L. Downey; SAR Press, 1997), and Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots (with Robbie Davis-Floyd; Routledge, 1998). Dumit is the associate editor of the journal Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry.

Inhaltsangabe

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