Bunn, C. (2011) Review of: An Anthropology of Biomedicine. Sociology of Health and Illness, 33(5), pp. 817-818. (doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2011.01374.x)[Book Review]
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Abstract
Margaret Lock and Vinh-Kim Nguyen’s collaboration distils a scholarly anthropological account of global biomedicine from a pool of ethnographies, histories and social theories. The reader is offered narratives of the origins of biomedical science, the plurality of human biologies, the birth of population-focussed medicine, the experimental basis of biomedical claims, the ‘social life of organs’, the changing nature of reproduction and the explosion of genecentred discourse, to name but a few. In 520 pages, the authors achieve a thought-provoking synthesis of three centuries of thought, practice and conjecture.
| Item Type: | Book Reviews |
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| Status: | Published |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Bunn, Dr Christopher |
| Authors: | Bunn, C. |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GN Anthropology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
| College/School: | College of Medical Veterinary and Life Sciences > School of Health & Wellbeing > Social Scientists working in Health and Wellbeing College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences |
| Journal Name: | Sociology of Health and Illness |
| Publisher: | Blackwell |
| ISSN: | 0141-9889 |
| Published Online: | 20 July 2011 |
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