Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life Book

Foreword     vii
Introduction   Regula Valerie Burri   Joseph Dumit     1
Social and cultural studies of biomedicine     15
Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s)   Stefan Beck     17
Metaphors of medicine and the culture of healing: Historical perspectives   Jakob Tanner     35
Medicine as practice and culture: The analysis of border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies   Gesa Lindemann     47
Epistemic practices and material culture(s)     59
The future is now: Locating biomarkers for dementia   Margaret Lock     61
Embodied action, enacted bodies: The example of hypoglycaemia   Annemarie Mol   John Law     87
Sociotechnical anatomy: Technology, space, and body in the MRI unit   Regula Valerie Burri     109
Risk and safety in the operating theater: An ethnographic study of sociotechnical practices   Cornelius Schubert     123
Biomedical knowledge in context     139
Genomic susceptibility as an emergent form of life? Genetic testing, identity, and the remit of medicine   Nikolas Rose     141
Susceptible individuals and risky rights: Dimensions of genetic responsibility   Thomas Lemke     151
"Pop genes": An investigation of "the gene" in popular parlance   Barbara Duden   Silja Samerski     167
Genetics and its publics: Crafting genetic literacy and identity in the early twenty-first century   Karen-Sue Taussig     191
Constructing the digital patient: Patient organizations and the development of health websites   Nelly Oudshoorn   Andre Somers     205
Epilogue: Indeterminate lives, demands, relations: Emergent bioscapes   Joseph Dumit   Regula Valerie Burri     223
Contributors     229
Index     235