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 medicalization, the
jurisdiction of medicine began expanding, redefining certain areas
once deemed moral, social, or legal problems (such as alcoholism,
drug addiction, and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of
this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s, dramatic,
and especially technoscientific, changes in the constitution,
organization, and practices of contemporary biomedicine have
coalesced into biomedicalization, the second major transformation
of American medicine. This volume offers in-depth analyses and case
studies along with the groundbreaking essay in which the editors
first elaborated their theory of biomedicalization.
"Contributors." Natalie Boero, Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer R.
Fishman, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Kelly Joyce, Jonathan Kahn, Laura
Mamo, Jackie Orr, Elianne Riska, Janet K. Shim, Sara Shostak
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