Lock, Margaret M. (Editor)
Young, Allan (Editor)
Cambrosio, Alberto (Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: 306 pp., fig.
Language: English
Description Contents: Alberto Cambrosio; Allan Young; Margaret Lock: Introduction. Part I. Epochal Transitions? Biomedicine and the Transformation of Socionature. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger Beyond nature and culture: Modes of reasoning in the age of molecular biology and medicine. Paul Rabinow: Epochs, presents, events. Part II. Laboratories and Clinics: The Material Culture of Biomedicine. Ilana Lowy: Trustworthy knowledge and desperate patients: Clinical tests for new drugs from cancer to AIDS. Annemarie Mol: Pathology and the clinic: An ethnographic presentation of two atheroscleroses. Peter Keating; Alberto Cambrosio: “Real compared to what?”: Diagnosing leukemias and lymphomas. Allan Young: History, hystery, and psychiatric styles of reasoning. Part III: Technologies and Bodies: The Extended Networks of Biomedicine. Patricia A. Kaufert: Screening the body: The Pap smear and the mammogram. Rayna Rapp: Extra chromosomes and blue tulips: Medico-familial interpretations. Joseph Dumit: When explanations rest: “Good-enough” brain science and the new sociomedical disorders. Margaret Lock: On dying twice: Culture, technology, and the determination of death. Veena Das: The practice of organ transplants: networks, documents, translations.
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