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| Author: | Clarke, A. E. |
| Title: | Biomedicalization:Technoscientific Transformations Of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine |
| Journal: | American Sociological Review
2003 : APR, VOL. 68:2, p. 161-194 |
| Index terms: | HEALTH MEDICINE USA |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The historical shift from medicalization to biomedicalization is one from control over biomedical phenomena to transformations of them. Five key interactive processes both engender biomedicalization and are produced through it: (1) the political economic reconstitution of the vast sector of biomedicine; (2) the focus on health itself and the elaboration of risk and surveillance biomedicines; (3) the increasingly technological and scientific nature of biomedicine; (4) transformations in how biomedical knowledges are produced, distributed, and consumed, and in medical information management; and (5) transformations of bodies to include new properties and the production of new individual and collective technoscientific identities. |
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