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Biomedical Platforms
An examination of postwar medicine based on the notion of the biomedical platform--the theoretical and clinical meeting ground between the normal and the pathological.
Cancer on Trial
There were no medical oncologists until a few decades ago. In the early 1960s, not only were there no such specialists, many practitioners regarded the treatment of terminally-ill cancer patients with heroic courses of chemotherapy as highly questionable. Physicians loath to assign patients randomly to competing treatments also expressed their outright opposition to the randomized clinical trials that were then relatively rare. And yet today these trials form the basis of medical oncology. How did such a spectacular change occur? How did medical oncology move from a non-entity and in some regards a reviled practice to the central position it now occupies in modern medicine?"Cancer on Trial"answers these questions by exploring how practitioners established a new style of practice, at the center of which lies the cancer clinical trial."
Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
This stimulating collection of essays, a product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, focuses on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, the contributions reveal that the authors have achieved no consensus about the objectives of their research. Deep epistemological divides clearly remain, making for provocative reading.
Crafting Immunity
Immunity is as old as illness itself, yet historians have only just begun to take up the challenge of reconstructing the modern transformation of attempts to protect against disease. Crafting Immunity assembles in one volume the most recent efforts of an international group of scholars to place the diverse practices of immunity in their historical contexts. It is this diversity that provides the book with its greatest source of strength. Collectively, the papers in this volume suggest that it was the craft-like, small-scale, and local conditions of clinical medicine that turned the immunity of individuals and populations into biomedical objects. That is to say, the modern conception of immun...
Cancer Patients, Cancer Pathways
Eleven essays by historians and sociologists examine cancer research and treatment as everyday practice in post-war Europe and North America. These are not stories of inevitable medical progress and obstacles overcome, but of historical contingencies, cultural differences, hope, and often disappointed expectations.
Medicine as Science
Der Band beleuchtet die vergessene Identität der Medizin als moderne akademische Disziplin. Viele Arbeiten in der Geschichte und Soziologie der Wissenschaft und Medizin haben diese Identität mit dem Fokus auf die Medizin als modernen Beruf überschattet. Dieses Buch untersucht die Identitätsarbeit der Medizin von den Anfängen der modernen Forschungsuniversität bis zu den aktuellen Diskursen über Wissenschaft und Medizin mithilfe einer historischen Soziologie und unter Verwendung einer begriffsgeschichtlichen Perspektive. Es zeigt, wie wichtige Institutionen und Grundkonzepte der Medizin entstanden sind, und legt ihre kulturellen Ursprünge offen. Es wird aufgezeigt, wie die Idee der Biomedizin heute die enge Verbindung zwischen Laborforschung und Aussichten auf eine bessere Gesundheitsversorgung bedeutet.
The Proceedings of the 21st Annual History of Medicine Days Conference 2012
The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days can be seen as a Series in the History of Medicine and Health Care that publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in the field, hence providing a unique publishing format. The annual Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference, established in 1991, brings together undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe to give paper and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics from the history of medicine and health care from an interdisciplinary perspective. The History of Medicine Days offers an annual platform for discussions and exchanges between participants ...
The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics
In The Oxford Handbook of Expertise and Democratic Politics, Gil Eyal and Thomas Medvetz have brought together a broad group of scholars who have engaged substantively and theoretically with debates regarding the nature of expertise and the social roles of experts to examines these areas within sociology and allied disciplines. The analyses take an historical and relational approach to the topic and are motivated by the sense that growing mistrust in experts represents a danger to democratic politics today. Bringing together investigations from social scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars into the political dimensions of expertise, this Handbook connects interdisciplinary work done in science and technology studies with the more classic concerns, topics, and concepts of sociologists of professions and intellectuals.
Parliaments and Technology
The first comparative analysis of the development and practice of technology assessment in different national settings.
