Biomedicine as Culture

Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

By: Joseph Dumit (Editor), Regula Valerie Burri (Editor)

Write A Review

Hardcover | 15 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Hardcover
260 Pages

Dimensions(cm)
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.91

Hardcover

RRP $305.00

$253.75

17%OFF

or 4 interest-free payments of $63.44 with

Aims to ship in 7 to 10 business days

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.

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.

Defective items

If there is a problem with any of the items received for your order then the Booktopia Customer Care team is ready to assist you.

For more info please visit our Help Centre.

Foreword	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Social and cultural studies of biomedicine	p. 15
Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s)	p. 17
Metaphors of medicine and the culture of healing: Historical perspectives	p. 35
Medicine as practice and culture: The analysis of border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies	p. 47
Epistemic practices and material culture(s)	p. 59
The future is now: Locating biomarkers for dementia	p. 61
Embodied action, enacted bodies: The example of hypoglycaemia	p. 87
Sociotechnical anatomy: Technology, space, and body in the MRI unit	p. 109
Risk and safety in the operating theater: An ethnographic study of sociotechnical practices	p. 123
Biomedical knowledge in context	p. 139
Genomic susceptibility as an emergent form of life? Genetic testing, identity, and the remit of medicine	p. 141
Susceptible individuals and risky rights: Dimensions of genetic responsibility	p. 151
"Pop genes": An investigation of "the gene" in popular parlance	p. 167
Genetics and its publics: Crafting genetic literacy and identity in the early twenty-first century	p. 191
Constructing the digital patient: Patient organizations and the development of health websites	p. 205
Epilogue: Indeterminate lives, demands, relations: Emergent bioscapes	p. 223
Contributors	p. 229
Index	p. 235
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

Biomedicine as Culture

Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

At a Glance

Hardcover

Shipping

How to return your order

Defective items

You Can Find This Book In

More in Sociology

Gutsy Girls

Love, Poetry and Sisterhood

All Women Want

An intimate look inside women's love lives and pursuits of pleasure, for readers of THREE WOMEN, COME AS YOU ARE and SMART SEX

Principles and Practice of Grief Counseling

3rd Edition

Australian Social Policy and the Human Services

3rd edition

Sociologic

2nd Edition - Analysing Everyday Life and Culture

Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics

6th Edition

Social Research Methods

6th edition

Public Sociology

5th Edition - An Introduction to Australian Society

The Modern Guide To Sex

Learn everything you've ever wanted to know about sex in this expert practical and inclusive guide for readers of Emily Nagoski, Hannah Ferguson and Dolly Alderton

Research for Social Workers

4th Edition - An introduction to methods

The Little Book of Mother's Love

The Most Powerful Force on Earth

Homo Deus

A Brief History of Tomorrow

Invisible Boys

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

How to Free Yourself and your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter

The Summer Girl

An utterly gripping psychological thriller with shocking twists

The Fair Play Deck

A Couple's Conversation Deck for Prioritizing What's Important

When Breath Becomes Air

What makes life worth living in the face of death

First Knowledges Health

Spirit, Country and Culture

A Second Act

What Nearly Dying Teaches Us About Really Living

The Sirens Call

how attention became the world's most endangered resource

Consent Laid Bare

Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

Queer as Folklore

The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters

Community Development in an Uncertain World

Vision, Analysis and Practice 2nd Edition

21 Lessons for the 21st Century

'Truly mind-expanding... Ultra-topical' Guardian

This product is categorised by