ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the productive value of intersectionality to the critical study of science, technology, medicine, health, and society, and represents the cutting edges of theoretical and methodological work on difference, power, and science. Just like intersectionality, science and technology studies (STS) is an interdisciplinary, loosely organized domain that traverses across disciplines and is articulated in vastly different ways even within disciplines such as sociology or history. Janet K. Shim is a leading theorist of "biomedicalization", the socio-historical processes that describe how biomedical science and clinical practice have been transformed since the late 1980s by advanced technologies, globalization, and unregulated capitalism. Jessie Daniels is an associate professor of urban public health at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) whose publications include White Lies and Cyber Racism, both of which explore the intersectional dynamics of White supremacist movements. In her work on cyberfeminism, Daniels explores the somewhat opposing impulses in cyberfeminist literatures.
