Biomedicalization

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.

Biomedicalization features in the following genres: Sociology, Impact of science and technology on society, Medicine: general issues

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Biomedicalization was written by Adele E Clarke and published by Duke University Press

Biomedicalization has 472 pages

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