Biomedicine as Culture
Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life
Edited by Regula Valérie Burri, Joseph Dumit
Series: Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
List Price: $110.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-95798-4
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 06/15/2007
- Pages: 264
About the Book
This volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. The collection of essays 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.
