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.
Cultural Health Capital
- Janet K Shim
- MedicineJournal of Health and Social Behavior
- 1 March 2010
This article defines cultural health capital as the repertoire of cultural skills, verbal and nonverbal competencies, attitudes and behaviors, and interactional styles, cultivated by patients and clinicians alike, that may result in more optimal health care relationships.
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.
Cultural health capital and the interactional dynamics of patient-centered care.
- Leslie Dubbin, J. Chang, Janet K Shim
- MedicineSocial Science & Medicine ()
- 1 September 2013
Revisiting the biomedicalization of aging: clinical trends and ethical challenges.
- S. Kaufman, Janet K Shim, Ann J. Russ
- MedicineThe gerontologist
- 1 December 2004
It is suggested that a new kind of ethical knowledge is emerging through "routine" clinical care, and examples from the following interventions are offered: cardiac procedures, kidney dialysis, and kidney transplant.
Biomedicalization: A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction
- A. Clarke, Janet K Shim, L. Mamo, J. Fosket, J. Fishman
- Sociology
- 2009
Medicalization and Biomedicalization Revisited: Technoscience and Transformations of Health, Illness and American Medicine
- A. Clarke, Janet K Shim
- Medicine
- 2009
The still robust medicalization thesis is that the legitimate jurisdiction of Western or scientific medicine began expanding by including new domains of human life by redefining or reconstructing them as falling properly within medical (rather than legal, religious, etc.) domains.
Old age, life extension, and the character of medical choice.
- S. Kaufman, Janet K Shim, Ann J. Russ
- MedicineThe journals of gerontology. Series B…
- 1 July 2006
Provider and patient practices together reveal how the standard use of medical procedures at ever older ages trumps patient-initiated decision making.
“Is There Life on Dialysis?”: Time and Aging in a Clinically Sustained Existence
- Ann J. Russ, Janet K Shim, S. Kaufman
- MedicineMedical Anthropology
- 1 October 2005
Highlighting the unique dimensions of gerontological time on chronic life support, the article offers a phenomenology of the end of life as that end is drawn out, deferred by technological means, and effaced by the ethos and experiential course of dialysis treatment.
Understanding the routinised inclusion of race, socioeconomic status and sex in epidemiology: the utility of concepts from technoscience studies
- Janet K Shim
- Sociology
- 1 March 2002
Abstract The multifactorial model of disease causation constitutes the dominant conceptual framework underwriting the epidemiology of chronic illness. Under this rubric, factors correlated with…
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