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eBook details
- Title: Biomedicine as Culture
- Author : Regula Valérie Burri & Joseph Dumit
- Release Date : January 21, 2007
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 940 KB
Description
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.