Biomedicine as Culture Instrumental Practices Technoscientific Knowledge and New Modes of Life 1st Edition by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit ISBN 0415957982 978-0415957984

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ISBN 10: 0415957982
ISBN 13: 978-0415957984
Author: Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit 

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its epistemic, material, and social implications. The essays look at the ways new biomedical knowledge is constructed within hospitals and academic settings and at how this knowledge changes perceptions, material arrangements, and social relations, not only within clinics and scientific communities, but especially once it is diffused into a broader cultural context.

Biomedicine as Culture Instrumental Practices Technoscientific Knowledge and New Modes of Life 1st  Table of contents:

Part I Social and cultural studies of biomedicine

1 Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s)

MICRO EVENT: THE CREATION OF DIFFERENCE

MEDICINE AS AGENT OF SOCIAL CONTROL: MEDICALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS

MEDICINE AS CULTURE: ETHNOMEDICINES. HOWEVER, DOES SCIENCE HAVE CULTURE TOO?

CULTURE(S) OF MEDICINE: EPISTEMIC CULTURE(S)

MEDICINE’S CULTURAL PRODUCTIONS: NEW SOCIAL FORMS, EMERGENT SPHERES OF TRANSACTION

MEDICINE AS CULTURE: ASSEMBLAGES, GLOCAL FORMS, EVENTS

NOTES

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2 Metaphors of medicine and the culture of healing

CONTRADICTIONS AND COMPLEXITY IN THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE

SEMIOTICS, TECHNOLOGIES, PRACTICES

DISCOURSIVE DISPOSITIVES AND METAPHORICAL OPERATIONS

NOTES

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3 Medicine as practice and culture

THE BASIC ASSUMPTION OF A SOCIAL SCIENCE PERSPECTIVE: A FORMAL THEORY OF THE SOCIAL

THE BIOMEDICAL BORDER REGIME

THE FORMAL THEORY AS A CONCEPTUAL TOOL OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

THE PATIENT AS AN OU-TOPIAN EXPRESSIVE COUNTERPART

CONCLUSION

NOTES

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Part II Epistemic practices and material culture(s)

4 The future is now

GREEDY REDUCTIONISM

SCALING DOWN COMPLEXITY

IN SEARCH OF PRODROMAL DEMENTIA

PINNING DOWN AD

THE GENETICS OF ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE

TESTING FOR ALZHEIMER’S GENES

THE REVEAL PROJECT

GENETICS AND BLENDED INHERITANCE

NOTES

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5 Embodied action, enacted bodies

LIVING BODIES

KNOWING HYPOGLYCAEMIA IN PRACTICE

COUNTERACTING, AVOIDING, PRODUCING HYPOGLYCAEMIA

IN- AND EXCORPORATIONS

NON/COHERENCES

WHAT FOLLOWS

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6 Sociotechnical anatomy

FABRICATING INSTRUMENTAL BODIES

SPATIAL ARRANGEMENTS

SEGREGATING MACHINES

COMMUNICATION(S): (RE)ESTABLISHING SOCIAL NORMS

SOCIOTECHNICAL CONSTELLATIONS

The interconnection of body and technology

The Spatial Stabilization of Bodies

WORK ROUTINES: STRUCTURING THE IMAGING PROCEDURE

Being geared to standards and efficiency

Remote commands

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

7 Risk and safety in the operating theater

SAFETY AND COOPERATION IN THE OPERATING THEATER

DIFFERENT MODES OF COOPERATION

Routine

Compensation

Improvisation

SOCIOTECHNICAL ENSEMBLES

CONCLUSION

NOTES

REFERENCES

Part III Biomedical knowledge in context

8 Genomic susceptibility as an emergent form of life?

TECHNOLOGIES OF LIFE

BEYOND GENETIC DETERMINISM

BIOMEDICINE: BEYOND TREATMENT AND CURE

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9 Susceptible individuals and risky rights

RIGHT TO NONKNOWLEDGE, OR DUTY TO WARN?

A DIRECT THREAT: SUSCEPTIBILITY, PATERNALISM, AND DISCRIMINATION

CONCLUSION: THE EMERGENCE OF A GENETIC ENLIGHTENMENT

NOTES

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10 “Pop genes”

“POP GENES” AS AN ANALOGY TO THE FLESH: THE ALCHEMICAL POWER OF “GENES” IN ORDINARY SPEECH

THE “POP GENE” PROJECT: IN SEARCH OF THE SEMANTIC CONTOURS OF THE “REFLEXIVE GENE”

“GENES” VIVA VOCE

THE “GENE IN HEUDORF”

INCARNATE SEMANTICS: PASTS INCARNATE

A STABLE, FAMILIAL, SOMATIC ENDOWMENT FROM THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE

DISTINCT, INVISIBLE, DETERMINING “GENES FOR”

GENE DEFECT—DEFECTIVE GENES

“THE GENE” AS LATENT MENACE

GENETIC COUNSELING AS A CALL FOR SELF-MANAGEMENT

CORRELATION AS CAUSE

GENES AS STOREHOUSES FOR POSSIBILITIES

THE PERSON AS A MANAGEABLE CONSTRUCT

CONCLUSION

NOTES

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11 Genetics and its publics

MINING DNA

FAMILIES

TISSUE BANKS AND INSTITUTIONS

TARGETED GROUPS

NOTES

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12 Constructing the digital patient

DUTCH HEALTH CARE POLICY AND THE INFORMED PATIENT

THE DEPRESSION FOUNDATION

Previous experience and i-methodology

Configuring the user as patient

THE FOUNDATION YOUNG PEOPLE AND CANCER

Expert visions and user feedback

Designing for patients with psycho-social problems and physical constraints

THE RSI PATIENT ORGANIZATION

Experience-based knowledge and informal methods

Imaging users as active patients and users of the internet

CONCLUSIONS

NOTES

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Epilogue

POSTMEDICAL DEMANDS

POSTINDIVIDUAL BIOKNOWLEDGE

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