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From Turkey Basters to the Fertility Clinic: Lesbian Reproductive Practices in Biomedicalization

From Turkey Basters to the Fertility Clinic: Lesbian Reproductive Practices in Biomedicalization Since Adele Clarke and her students published their thesis on “biomedicalization” in a widely cited American Sociological Review article in 2003, a growing body of feminist empirical scholarship has emerged that describes and critiques the transformation of health practices at the intersections of identities, medicine, and technoscience. Notably, much of this scholarship has emerged within the interactionist tradition, with recent publications by Janet Shim, Jennifer Fosket, Jennifer Fish‐man, and Kelly Joyce. This group offers interactionist accounts of the biomedical transformation of everyday life, investigating such topics as erectile dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and a range of medical imaging technologies. Biomedicalization, they have argued, represents the reconfiguration of medical knowledge and practices from an emphasis on disease, illness, and cures (i.e., “medicalization”) to a rhetoric and logic of choice, consumption, enhancement, and risk management. Facilitated and precipitated by the pervasive advancement of technoscience into all sectors of health care and medicine, biomedicalization has ushered a shift from the stethoscope to the MRI and a subsequent reliance on advanced technologies that offer heretofore‐unseen ways of accessing, knowing, and modifying bodies and identities. In the case of assisted reproduction, Laura Mamo has revealed a compelling transformation of lesbian reproductive practices over the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Symbolic Interaction Wiley

From Turkey Basters to the Fertility Clinic: Lesbian Reproductive Practices in Biomedicalization

Symbolic Interaction , Volume 31 (3) – Jul 1, 2008

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
2008 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
ISSN
0195-6086
eISSN
1533-8665
DOI
10.1525/si.2008.31.3.345
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Abstract

Since Adele Clarke and her students published their thesis on “biomedicalization” in a widely cited American Sociological Review article in 2003, a growing body of feminist empirical scholarship has emerged that describes and critiques the transformation of health practices at the intersections of identities, medicine, and technoscience. Notably, much of this scholarship has emerged within the interactionist tradition, with recent publications by Janet Shim, Jennifer Fosket, Jennifer Fish‐man, and Kelly Joyce. This group offers interactionist accounts of the biomedical transformation of everyday life, investigating such topics as erectile dysfunction, cardiovascular disease, and a range of medical imaging technologies. Biomedicalization, they have argued, represents the reconfiguration of medical knowledge and practices from an emphasis on disease, illness, and cures (i.e., “medicalization”) to a rhetoric and logic of choice, consumption, enhancement, and risk management. Facilitated and precipitated by the pervasive advancement of technoscience into all sectors of health care and medicine, biomedicalization has ushered a shift from the stethoscope to the MRI and a subsequent reliance on advanced technologies that offer heretofore‐unseen ways of accessing, knowing, and modifying bodies and identities. In the case of assisted reproduction, Laura Mamo has revealed a compelling transformation of lesbian reproductive practices over the

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Published: Jul 1, 2008

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