Wild Science : Reading Feminism, Medicine and the Media (Writing Corporealities) (Paperback)

~ Marchessault (Editor) "CONTEMPORARY MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES such as microscopes, X-ray machines, endoscopes, and most recently positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have made it possible..." (more)
Key Phrases: biological determinist claims, virtual corpse, medical abortions, New York, Ness York, The Gold (more...)

Editorial Reviews

Review

Here is a solidly researched feminist investigation of modern medicine in North America. It will no doubt become a part of the science and culture curricula and help to foster greater public discourse on health care policy, biotechnology, and the role of the media..
–Topia, Fall 2001

With an emphasis on historically and empirically grounded research, this collection of fourteen original essays offers sophisticated analyses of the intersections between feminism, medicine, and the media, and effectively argues that science and biotechnology may have a rightful place in cultural studies..
–Topia, Fall 2001.

Product Description

Everyday viewers are confronted with shocking news reports and sensational images about DNA and cloning, the fight against AIDS, cancer and depression.

TV stations such as Lifetime currently devote entire programs to women's health and popular sitcoms are now dealing with issues like mammograms, breast cancer and hormone replacement therapy.

Wild Science investigates this worldwide boom in health culture. The book helps to explain how popular culture-the principal channel by which the non-scientific community understands illness-implicates national health policies and effects medical research funding. This innovative and controversial volume reveals the new technologies which make the human body into a virtual territory; popular representations of genetics and identity, the diagnostic and medical practices centered around women's bodies, and debates around the practice of 'feminist science studies'.

Wild Science attempts to aim our attention at the visual culture of medicine, exploring the power of popular representations over our expectations in everything from the Visible Human Project to the supposed existence of a 'gay gene' to medical abortion.. The book argues science is an everyday practice bound in values and institutions, and calls for a responsible engagement with the public cultures of science and health.

Contributors: Anne Balsamo, Anne Beaulieu, Lisa Cartwright, Kathy Davis, Jose Van Dijck, Lisa Finn, Ursula Franklin, Janine Marchessault, Maria Nengeh Mensah, Kim Sawchuk, M. Medhi Semati, Jennifer Daryl Slack, Bonnie P. Spanier, Catherine Waldby and Angela Wall.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 280 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1st edition (June 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0415204313
• ISBN-13: 978-0415204316
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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