{"product_id":"biomedicine-as-culture-instrumental-practices-technoscientific-knowledge-and-new-modes-of-life-paperback","title":"Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRegula Valérie Burri\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eJoseph Dumit\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume offers interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary biomedicine as a cultural practice. It brings together leading scholars from cultural anthropology, sociology, history, and science studies to conduct a critical dialogue on the culture(s) of biomedical practice, discussing its epistemic, material, and social implications. The essays look at the ways new biomedical knowledge is constructed within hospitals and academic settings and at how this knowledge changes perceptions, material arrangements, and social relations, not only within clinics and scientific communities, but especially once it is diffused into a broader cultural context.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRegula Valérie Burri is an affiliated research fellow at Collegium Helveticum, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) and University of Zurich. Her doctoral thesis, \"Doing Images: Zur Praxis medizinischer Bilder\" (forthcoming), explores the social and cultural implications of medical imaging. She has been a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow and holds appointments with several Swiss universities. Her research interests focus on the relationship between science, technology, and society. She is the coauthor of \"Social Studies of Scientific Images and Visualization,\" in Ed Hackett et al., \u003cem\u003eThe Handbook of Science and Technology Studies\u003c\/em\u003e (with Joseph Dumit; MIT Press).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoseph Dumit is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology and the director of the program in Science and Technology Studies at University of California, Davis. His research interests are the anthropology of science, technology, and medicine; medical anthropology; and social studies. He is the author of \u003cem\u003ePicturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity\u003c\/em\u003e (Princeton University Press, 2004); and the coeditor of \u003cem\u003eCyborgs \u0026amp; Citadels: Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies\u003c\/em\u003e (with Gary L. Downey; SAR Press, 1997), and \u003cem\u003eCyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tots\u003c\/em\u003e (with Robbie Davis-Floyd; Routledge, 1998). Dumit is the associate editor of the journal \u003cem\u003eCulture, Medicine \u0026amp; Psychiatry\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 04, 2010\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45341338108006,"sku":"9780415883177","price":121.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/aTBPSkNCWCtNWGQxU2RhYXplaDU2Zz09.webp?v=1774831599","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/biomedicine-as-culture-instrumental-practices-technoscientific-knowledge-and-new-modes-of-life-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}