Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine
- A. Clarke, Janet K Shim, L. Mamo, J. Fosket, J. Fishman
- Medicine, Biology
- 1 April 2003
Biomedicalization describes the increasingly complex, multisited, multidirectional processes of medicalization, both extended and reconstituted through the new social forms of highly technoscientific biomedicine.
Biomedicalization : technoscience, health, and illness in the U.S.
- A. Clarke, L. Mamo, J. Fosket, J. Fishman, Janet K Shim, E. Riska
- Medicine
- 2009
This book discusses the Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicalization in the United States, 1890-Present, and the role of medicine, science, and technology in this transformation.
Personal genomics and individual identities: motivations and moral imperatives of early users
- M. McGowan, J. Fishman, Marcie A. Lambrix
- BusinessNew genetics and society
- 1 September 2010
This study investigates early users' reasons for utilizing personal genome services, their evaluation of the technology, how they interpret the results, and how they incorporate the results into health-related decision-making.
Propranolol and the Prevention of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Is it Wrong to Erase the “Sting” of Bad Memories?
- M. Henry, J. Fishman, S. Youngner
- Psychology, MedicineAmerican Journal of Bioethics
- 12 September 2007
It is thought that adequate informed consent should facilitate ethical research using propranolol and, if it proves efficacious, routine treatment, and that the most immediate social concern is the over-medicalization of bad memories, and its subsequent exploitation by the pharmaceutical industry.
Citizen science or scientific citizenship? Disentangling the uses of public engagement rhetoric in national research initiatives
- J. Woolley, M. McGowan, E. Juengst
- Political ScienceBMC Medical Ethics
- 4 June 2016
It is imperative to make visible and clear the full spectrum of meanings of “citizen science,” the contexts in which it is used, and its demands with respect to participation, engagement, and governance.
Potency in All the Right Places: Viagra as a Technology of the Gendered Body
- L. Mamo, J. Fishman
- Sociology
- 1 December 2001
New pharmacological therapies, often dubbed `lifestyle drugs', demonstrate the enactment of yet another interface between technologies and bodies that promises a re-fashioning of the body with…
Biomedicalization: A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction
- A. Clarke, Janet K Shim, L. Mamo, J. Fosket, J. Fishman
- Sociology
- 2009
Big data, open science and the brain: lessons learned from genomics
- S. Choudhury, J. Fishman, M. McGowan, E. Juengst
- BiologyFrontiers in Human Neuroscience
- 16 May 2014
The rationale for data sharing among advocates is examined, the complexities of data sharing are demonstrated, shedding light on the sociological and ethical challenges within the realms of institutions, researchers and participants, namely dilemmas around public/private interests in data, (lack of) motivation to share in the academic community, and potential loss of participant anonymity.
A New View of Women's Sexual Problems
- J. Fishman
- Medicine
- 5 March 2002
This document criticizes current American Psychiatric Association nomenclature for women's sexual problems because of false equivalency between men and women, erasing the relational contact of sexuality, and ignoring differences among women.
Manufacturing Desire:
- J. Fishman
- BusinessSocial Studies of Science
- 1 April 2004
This paper examines how researchers attend professional meetings where they present clinical trial data, lecture at continuing medical education conferences, and offer themselves as ‘experts’ to raise awareness about disorders and their treatments.
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