Biomedicalization: Technoscientific Transformations of Health, Illness, and U.S. Biomedicine

Authors:
  • ACAdele E. Clarke
    Adele E. Clarke
  • LMLaura Mamo
    Laura Mamo
  • JSJanet K. Shim
    Janet K. Shim
  • JFJennifer Ruth Fosket
    Jennifer Ruth Fosket
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Abstract
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization--the e...