The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War, the first “social transformation of American medicine.” Then, in an ongoing process called medicalization, the jurisdiction of medicine began expanding, redefining certain areas once deemed moral, social, or legal problems (such as alcoholism, drug addiction, and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s, dramatic, and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution, organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced into biomedicalization, the second major transformation of American medicine. This volume offers in-depth analyses and case studies along with the groundbreaking essay in which the editors first elaborated their theory of biomedicalization. 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 Biomedicalization : Technoscientific Transformations Of Health, Illness, And U.s Biomedicine / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, And Jennifer R. Fishman -- Charting (bio)medicine And (bio)medicalization In The United States, 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, And Janet K. Shim -- From The Rise Of Medicine To Biomedicalization : U.s. Healthscapes And Iconography, Circa 1890/present / Adele E. Clarke -- Gender And Medicalization And Biomedicalization Theories / Elianne Riska -- Fertility, Inc. : Consumption And Subjectification In U.s. Lesbian Reproductive Practices / Laura Mamo -- The Body As Image : An Examination Of The Economic And Political Dynamics Of Magnetic Resonance Imaging And The Construction Of Difference / Kelly Joyce -- The Stratified Biomedicalization Of Heart Disease : Expert And Lay Perspectives On Racial And Class Inequality / Janet K. Shim -- Marking Populations And Persons At Risk : Molecular Epidemiology And Environmental Health / Sara Shostak -- Surrogate Markers And Surrogate Marketing In Biomedicine : The Regulatory Etiology And Commercial Progression Of Ethnic Drug Development / Jonathan Kahn -- The Making Of Viagra : The Biomedicalization Of Sexual Dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman -- Bypassing Blame : Bariatric Surgery And The Case Of Biomedical Failure / Natalie Boero -- Breast Cancer Risk As Disease : Biomedicalizing Risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket -- Biopsychiatry And The Informatics Of Diagnosis : Governing Mentalities / Jackie Orr. Adele E. Clarke ... [et Al.], Eds. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The editors of this collection argue that we are in the midst of another major transformation in American medicine, 'biomedicalization', the result of dramatic, largely techno-scientific changes in the organization and practices of biomedicine since the mid-1980s 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. Collection of essays that considers the impact of biomedical technologies--MRI scans, assisted reproduction, and specialized drugs--on the social construction of gender
