4 / Gender and Medicalization and Biomedicalization Theories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Biomedicalization A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction 1
6. Part I / Theoretical and Historical Framings
7. 1 / Biomedicalization Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness , and U. S. Biomedicine 47
8. 2 / Charting (Bio)Medicine and (Bio)Medicalization in the United States, 1890–Present 88
9. 3 / From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization U. S. Healthscapes and Iconography, circa 1890–Present 104
10. 4 / Gender and Medicalization and Biomedicalization Theories 147
11. Part II / Case Studies: Focus on Difference
12. 5 / Fertility, Inc. Consumption and Subjectification in U. S. Lesbian Reproductive Practices 173
13. 6 / The Body as Image An Examinat ion of the Economic and Political Dynamics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construct ion of Difference 197
14. 7 / The Stratified Biomedicalization of Heart Disease Expert and Lay Perspectives on Racial and Class Inequality 218
15. 8 / Marking Populations and Persons at Risk Molecular Epidemiology and Environmental Health 242
16. 9 / Surrogate Markers and Surrogate Marketing in Biomedicine The Regulatory Etiology and Commercial Progress ion of “Ethnic” Drug Development 263
17. Part III / Focus on Enhancement
18. 10 / The Making of Viagra The Biomedicalization of Sexual Dysfunction 289
19. 11 / Bypassing Blame Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure 307
20. 12 / Breast Cancer Risk as Disease Biomedicalizing Risk 331
21. 13 / Biopsychiatry and the Informatics of Diagnosis Governing Mentalities 353
22. Epilogue / Thoughts on Biomedicalization in Its Transnational Travels 380
23. References 407
24. About the Contributors 489
25. Index 491