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- catalog abstract ""Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in "health culture." While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with news reports and images of DNA and cloning, the fight against AIDS, cancer and depression. With popular culture the principal means by which the non-scientific community understands illness, health and science, what are the implications of this for national health policies and for what gets funding for research?" "Wild Science argues that science is an everyday practice bound in values and institutions, and calls for a responsible engagement with the public cultures of science and health."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11644137.
- catalog contributor b11644138.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Wild Science investigates the world-wide boom in "health culture." While self-help health books and medical dramas are popular around the globe, we are bombarded with news reports and images of DNA and cloning, the fight against AIDS, cancer and depression. With popular culture the principal means by which the non-scientific community understands illness, health and science, what are the implications of this for national health policies and for what gets funding for research?" "Wild Science argues that science is an everyday practice bound in values and institutions, and calls for a responsible engagement with the public cultures of science and health."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Corporeal maps. Biotourism, Fantastic Voyage, and sublime inner space / Kim Sawchuk -- The visible human project: data into flesh, flesh into data / Catherine Waldby -- The brain at the end of the rainbow: the promises of brain scans in the research field and in the media / Anne Beaulieu. Genetic codifications. David Suzuki's The Secret of Life: informatics and the popular discourse of the life code / Janine Marchessault -- The language and literature of life: popular metaphors in genome research / José van Dijck -- What made Ellen (and Anne) gay? feminist critique of popular and scientific beliefs / Bonnie P. Spanier. Clinical practices. Pygmalions in plastic surgery: medical stories, masculine stories / Kathy Davis -- Community and the public body in breast cancer media activism / Lisa Cartwright -- Screening bodies, assigning meaning: ER and the technology of HIV testing / Maria Nengeh Mensah -- Complications: an analysis of medical abortions in the US / Lisa Finn -- Mothers, monsters and family values: assisted reproduction and the aging natural body / Angela Wall. Feminist science studies. Teaching in the belly of the beast: feminism in the best of all places / Anne Balsamo -- The politics of the "Sokal Affair" / Jennifer Daryl Slack and M. Mehdi Semati -- Letter to a graduate student / Ursula Franklin.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 259 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0415204305 (hbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog identifier "0415204313 (pbk. : acid-free paper)".
- catalog isPartOf "Writing corporealities".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London ; New York : Routledge,".
- catalog subject "2000 I-204".
- catalog subject "362.1 21".
- catalog subject "Biomedical Technology trends.".
- catalog subject "Diffusion of Innovation.".
- catalog subject "Feminism.".
- catalog subject "Feminist criticism.".
- catalog subject "Feminist theory.".
- catalog subject "Health in mass media.".
- catalog subject "Mass Media.".
- catalog subject "Medical innovations Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "RA418.5.M4 W54 2000".
- catalog subject "Science.".
- catalog subject "WA 309 W668 2000".
- catalog subject "Women Health and hygiene.".
- catalog subject "Women in science.".
- catalog subject "Women's Health.".
- catalog subject "Women.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Corporeal maps. Biotourism, Fantastic Voyage, and sublime inner space / Kim Sawchuk -- The visible human project: data into flesh, flesh into data / Catherine Waldby -- The brain at the end of the rainbow: the promises of brain scans in the research field and in the media / Anne Beaulieu. Genetic codifications. David Suzuki's The Secret of Life: informatics and the popular discourse of the life code / Janine Marchessault -- The language and literature of life: popular metaphors in genome research / José van Dijck -- What made Ellen (and Anne) gay? feminist critique of popular and scientific beliefs / Bonnie P. Spanier. Clinical practices. Pygmalions in plastic surgery: medical stories, masculine stories / Kathy Davis -- Community and the public body in breast cancer media activism / Lisa Cartwright -- Screening bodies, assigning meaning: ER and the technology of HIV testing / Maria Nengeh Mensah -- Complications: an analysis of medical abortions in the US / Lisa Finn -- Mothers, monsters and family values: assisted reproduction and the aging natural body / Angela Wall. Feminist science studies. Teaching in the belly of the beast: feminism in the best of all places / Anne Balsamo -- The politics of the "Sokal Affair" / Jennifer Daryl Slack and M. Mehdi Semati -- Letter to a graduate student / Ursula Franklin.".
- catalog title "Wild science : reading feminism, medicine, and the media / edited by Janine Marchessault and Kim Sawchuk.".
- catalog type "text".