ABSTRACT
In recent years medicalization, the process of making something medical, has gained considerable ground and a position in everyday discourse. In this multidisciplinary collection of original essays, the authors expertly consider how issues around medicalization have developed, ways in which it is changing, and the potential shapes it will take in the future. They develop a unique argument that medicalization, biomedicalization, pharmaceuticalization and geneticization are related and co-evolving processes, present throughout the globe. This is an ideal addition to anthropology, sociology and STS courses about medicine and health.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |69 pages
Reimaginings: (Bio)Medicalization and Technoscience in the Twenty-First Century
chapter |22 pages
Moving Sideways and Forging Ahead
chapter |15 pages
A New Biopolitics of Gender and Health?
part |85 pages
Pharmaceuticals
chapter |25 pages
The Drug Swallowers
part |74 pages
Genetics/Genomics