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Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life

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Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society

Medical ReferenceGeneral Science

ISBN10: 0415883172
ISBN13: 9780415883177
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jun 4 2010
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its epistemic, material, and social implications. The essays look at the ways new biomedical knowledge is constructed within hospitals and academic settings and at how this knowledge changes perceptions, material arrangements, and social relations, not only within clinics and scientific communities, but especially once it is diffused into a broader cultural context.

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