Bordering Biomedicine

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-90-420-1999-7
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 277 Seiten, Format (B × H): 15 mm x 22 mm

Reihe: At the Interface / Probing the Boundaries

Biomedicine is the dominant organizing framework of modern medicine but it is not the only lens through which health, illness and disease can be understood. This interdisciplinary collection of essays brings together scholars from around the world who seek to probe the boundaries of biomedicine. This book is the outcome of the third global conference on "Making Sense of: Health, Illness and Disease," held at St Catherine's College, Oxford, in July 2004. The papers selected for this volume take a variety of theoretical positions but share an interest in the social study of health, illness and disease. They consider how biomedicine is a cultural system and is imbued with other meanings and that a full exploration of health, illness and disease requires a variety of perspectives, including those of social scientists, humanists and practicing clinicians.

This volume will be of interest to students, researchers and health care providers who wish to gain insight into the many ways through which we can understand health, illness and disease.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kalitzkus, Vera

Twohig, Peter L.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Biomedizin, Medizinische Forschung, Klinische Studien
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Vera KALITZKUS and Peter L. TWOHIG: Introduction
Part 1 Humanist, Social Science and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease
Peter L. TWOHIG: The Musician, the Diarist and the Construction Worker: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Health, Illness and Disease
Tomasz SPIEWAK: Stanislaw Wyspianski (1869-1907): The Last Self-Portrait of the Syphilitic Artist
Part 2 The Epistemology of Biomedicine
James DAVIES: The Anthropology of Aetiology
Matthew MCGRATTAN: The Social Construction of Disease: Why Homosexuality isn't Like Cancer
Katherine ANGEL: Green Fingers or Pink Viagra? Female Sexual Dysfunction and Medicalisation in Contemporary Medical Discourse
Peter J. SCHULZ: The Communication of Diagnostic Information by Doctors to Patients in the Consultation
Part 3 Biomedicine in a Socio-Cultural Context
Betania ALLEN: Subaltern Theories of Health and Illness: An Ethnographic Study of Mexican Women With HIV Disease
BINDHULAKSHMI: When the Diagnosed Talk: Ethnographic Narratives of Mental Illness
Aaron GOODFELLOW: Critical Excess: Sex, Drugs, Intervention
Emma RICH, Hannele HARJUNEN and John EVANS: 'Normal Gone Bad': Health Discourses, Schools and the Female Body
Part 4 Beyond Biomedicine: Ethics, Experience, Voice
Philippa SPOEL: Midwifery, Consumerism and the Ethics of Informed Choice
Stephen Michael NEFF: Towards a Concept of Hope: A Functional Reconceptualization
Ian TUCKER: Embodied Practices and Subjectivity in Psychopathology
Kath MACDONALD: Getting By: The Lived Experience of Patients with Cystic Fibrosis and their Carers of Waiting for Lung Transplant
Judith MACDONALD: Speaking About the Unspeakable: Cervical Screening in
New Zealand