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Biomedicalization: Technoscience, Health, and Illness in the U.S. – Edited by Adele E. Clarke, Laura Mamo, Jennifer Ruth Fosket, Jennifer R. Fishman and Janet K. Shim
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Mapping the New Molecular Landscape: Social Dimensions of Epigenetics
TL;DR: Some of the ways in which epigenetics is being constructed as an area of biomedical novelty are considered and the content and logics underlying the ambivalent promises being made by scientists working in this area are discussed.
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Debating DSM-5: diagnosis and the sociology of critique
TL;DR: The need for a sociology of psychiatric critique is suggested, which can indicate which interests and values are structuring the dialogues being articulated, and just how diverse clinical opinion regarding the DSM can actually be, has implications for the considerations of health services and policy decision-makers who might look to such debates for guidance.
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Prescrire, proscrire, laisser choisir : Autonomie et droits des usagers des systèmes de santé en France et en Angleterre au prisme des contraceptions masculines
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of contraceptive use in France and in Angleterre is presented, where the authors compare the contextes institutionnelle de the prescription contraceptive which contribuent a definir le champ des possibles and du souhaitable for les usager.
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Medicalizations and Demedicalizations of Sexuality Therapies
TL;DR: This article complicates recent discussions about the expanding zones and influences of medicalization and biomedicalization on sexuality and sex therapy by contextualizing them with competing nonmedicalizing trends.
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Transformations in the Medicalization of Sex: HIV Prevention between Discipline and Biopolitics
Alain Giami,Christophe Perrey +1 more
TL;DR: This article examines transformations in HIV prevention strategies from the 1980s to the present and argues that, although biomedical and surgical approaches have certain benefits, their efficacy is limited and uncertain and they do not guarantee individual protection.
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Mapping the New Molecular Landscape: Social Dimensions of Epigenetics
TL;DR: Some of the ways in which epigenetics is being constructed as an area of biomedical novelty are considered and the content and logics underlying the ambivalent promises being made by scientists working in this area are discussed.
Journal ArticleDOI
Debating DSM-5: diagnosis and the sociology of critique
TL;DR: The need for a sociology of psychiatric critique is suggested, which can indicate which interests and values are structuring the dialogues being articulated, and just how diverse clinical opinion regarding the DSM can actually be, has implications for the considerations of health services and policy decision-makers who might look to such debates for guidance.
Dissertation
Prescrire, proscrire, laisser choisir : Autonomie et droits des usagers des systèmes de santé en France et en Angleterre au prisme des contraceptions masculines
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative study of contraceptive use in France and in Angleterre is presented, where the authors compare the contextes institutionnelle de the prescription contraceptive which contribuent a definir le champ des possibles and du souhaitable for les usager.
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Medicalizations and Demedicalizations of Sexuality Therapies
TL;DR: This article complicates recent discussions about the expanding zones and influences of medicalization and biomedicalization on sexuality and sex therapy by contextualizing them with competing nonmedicalizing trends.
Journal ArticleDOI
Transformations in the Medicalization of Sex: HIV Prevention between Discipline and Biopolitics
Alain Giami,Christophe Perrey +1 more
TL;DR: This article examines transformations in HIV prevention strategies from the 1980s to the present and argues that, although biomedical and surgical approaches have certain benefits, their efficacy is limited and uncertain and they do not guarantee individual protection.