Biomedicalization

<div>The rise of Western scientific medicine fully established the medical sector of the U.S. political economy by the end of the Second World War the first social transformation of American medicine. Then in an ongoing process called medicalization the jurisdiction of medicine began expanding redefining certain areas once deemed moral social or legal problems (such as alcoholism drug addiction and obesity) as medical problems. The editors of this important collection argue that since the mid-1980s dramatic and especially technoscientific changes in the constitution organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine have coalesced into biomedicalization the second major transformation of American medicine. This volume offers in-depth analyses and case studies along with the groundbreaking essay in which the editors first elaborated their theory of biomedicalization.<p><i>Contributors</i>. Natalie Boero Adele E. Clarke Jennifer R. Fishman Jennifer Ruth Fosket Kelly Joyce Jonathan Kahn Laura Mamo Jackie Orr Elianne Riska Janet K. Shim Sara Shostak</p></div>