Collection of essays that considers the impact of biomedical technologies--MRI scans, assisted reproduction, and specialized drugs--on the social construction of gender.

Preface viiAcknowledgments xiBiomedicalization: A Theoretical and Substantive Introduction / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. Fishman 1Part I. Theoretical and Historical Framings1. Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine / Adele E. Clarke, Janet K. Shim, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, and Jennifer R. Fishman 472. Charting (Bio)medicine and (Bio)medicalization in the United States, 1980¿present / Adele E. Clarke, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Laura Mamo, Jennifer R. Fishman, and Janet K. Shim 883. From the Rise of Medicine to Biomedicalization: U.S. Healthscapes and Iconography, circa 1890—Present / Adele E. Clarke 1044. Gender and Medicalization and Biomedicalization Theories / Elianne Riska 147Part II. Case Studies: Focus on Difference5. Fertility, Inc.: Consumption and Subjectification in U.S. Lesbian Reproductive Practices / Laura Mamo 1736. The Body as Image: An Examination of the Economic and Political Dynamics of Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Construction of Difference / Kelly Joyce 1977. The Stratified Biomedicalization of Heart Disease: Expert and Lay Perspectives on Racial and Class Inequality / Janet K. Shim 2188. Marking Populations and Persons at Risk: Molecular Epidemiology and Environmental Health / Sara Shostak 2429. Surrogate Markers and Surrogate Marketing in Biomedicine: The Regulatory Etiology and Commercial Progression of "Ethnic" Drug Development / Jonathan Kahn 263Part III. Focus on Enhancement10. The Making of Viagra: The Biomedicalization of Sexual Dysfunction / Jennifer R. Fishman 28911. Bypassing Blame: Bariatric Surgery and the Case of Biomedical Failure / Natalie Boero 30712. Breast Cancer Risk as Disease: Biomedicalizing Risk / Jennifer Ruth Fosket 33113. Biopsychiatry and the Informatics of Diasnosis: Governing Mentalities / Jackie Orr 353Epilogue: Thoughts on Biomedicalization in Its Traditional Travels / Adele E. Clarke 380References 407About the Contributors 485Index 487