Reimagining (Bio)Medicalization, Pharmaceuticals and Genetics

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Preface: Peter Conrad, Brandeis University Introduction: Susan E. Bell (Bowdoin College) and Anne E. Figert (Loyola University Chicago) (Bio)Medicalization, Technoscience and in a Transnational Perspective: Outlining Old Critiques and New Engagements PART I: Reimaginings: (Bio)Medicalization and Technoscience in the 21st 1. Susan E. Bell (Bowdoin College) and Anne E. Figert (Loyola University Chicago), Moving Sideways and Forging Ahead: Re-imagining -Izations in the 21st Century 2. Ellen Annandale (University of York) and Anne Hammarstrom, A New Biopolitics of Gender and Health? 'Gender-specific medicine' and 3. Janet K. Shim, Katherine Weatherford Darling, Sara L. Ackerman, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Robert A. Hiatt, (University of California, San Francisco) Reimagining and Ancestry: Biomedicalizing Difference in Post-Genomic Subjects 4. Commentary and Reflections: Rebecca Herzig (Bates College) On Stratification and Complexity: Matters of Difference in the Age of Biomedicaliztion PART II: Pharmaceuticals 5. Jeremy Greene (Johns Hopkins University) Vital Objects: Drugs and their Critical Legacies 6. Ari Samsky (Washington University St. Louis) Drug Swallowers: Scientific Sovereignty and Pharmaceuticalization in two International Drug Donation Programs 7. Courtney Cuthbertson, (University of Illinois) Technologies and the Management of Biological Citizens in Chile 8. Matthew Archibald, (Colby College) Essential Medicines, Drug Swallowers, and Biological Citizens: The Ongoing Construction of Pharmaceutical PART III: Genetics/Genomics 9. Catherine Bliss (University of California, San Francisco) Biomedicalization and the New Science of Race 10. Ruha Benjamin (Princeton University) Racial Destiny or Dexterity? The Global Circulation of Genomics as an Empowerment Idiom 11. Sara Shostak (Brandeis University) and Margot Moinester (Harvard University) Beyond Geneticization: Regimes of Perceptibility and the Social Determinants of Health 12. Commentary and Reflections: David Hecht (Bowdoin College) Lure of the Gene Epilogue: Susan Reverby (Wellesley College) Mapping the Bio-medicalized World for Justice