... construct of gender than they once held. Families use rhetorics from biomedicine, psychiatry, and even religion to imagine worlds in which their child’s self-understanding is inevitable, intrinsic, and immutable, the sorts of justifications demanded by the institutions from which they seek social support...

... sanitation hygiene contagious disease biomedicine folk medicine As the previous chapter showed, the Government-General used expositions and other mass media to inculcate industriousness, which, organizers hoped, would serve as the basis for continuing to subordinate the peninsula's economy...

... medical principles and scientific biomedicine. The chapter examines the full range of materials related to women’s reproductive health in Funü shibao. These include Bao Tianxiao’s editorial promotion of a new biomedical imperative, advertisements for pharmaceutical products targeting...

...This chapter discusses biomedicine, which is different from most other healing systems, such as the wide range of local healing activities described by ethnographers. The discussion centers mostly on the biomedicine of knowledge creators—teachers, researchers, textbook authors, etc.—and of the high...

...' logic of addiction with that of biomedicine, the book rethinks roads to recovery, discovering unexpected convergences with biomedicine while revealing the allure of street corner ministries....

... Pollan Michael Sackville West Vita Agrawal A environmentality Foucault Michel governmentality Ingold Tim Tibet Autonomous Region Qinghai Province China biomedicine pharmaceutical governance standardization commodification incommensurability There is no such thing as an inanimate object...

... disease public health biomedicine intervention norms regulation squatter settlements urban poverty Today our children are poisoned from factory lead—Tomorrow from police lead. Resist. anarchist graffiti, Nuevo París, western Montevideo “do you want to meet the man who...

... NGOs non governmental organizations pharmaceutical companies pollution Puerto Rico Rosner David victims Frankenberg Ronald identity Pan American Health Organization schools science local/global biomedicine public health biopolitics pediatrics toxicology risk Official standards...