Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S. by Jackie Orr, Adele E. Clarke, Sara Shostak, Natalie Boero, Janet K.Shim, Kelly Joyce, Janet K. Shim, Jennifer RuthFosket, Jennifer R.Fishman, Jonathan Kahn, Jennifer R. Fishman, Elianne Riska, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo

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Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S.

Jackie Orr, Adele E. Clarke, Sara Shostak, Natalie Boero, Janet K.Shim, Kelly Joyce, Janet K. Shim, Jennifer RuthFosket, Jennifer R.Fishman, Jonathan Kahn, Jennifer R. Fishman, Elianne Riska, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo

512 pages • first pub 2009 • 1 edition

nonfiction sociology challenging informative medium-paced

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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 medicalizatio...