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Biomedical Techniques in Context: On the Appropriation of Biomedical Procedures and Artifacts INTRODUCTION

Author(s)
Bernhard Hadolt, Viola Hörbst, Babette Müller-Rockstroh
Abstract

On the assumption that technical practices and artifacts are fundamental constituents of individual and collective attempts to order lives and bodies in health and sickness, in this introduction, we set out three central propositions. First, medical techniques have to take center stage in research on biomedicine. Second, as medical artifacts travel worldwide, they become part of the processes of sociocultural appropriation. Third, anthropologists have to consider how to study the transformations associated with such appropriation and how much they need to know about the technical aspects of their objects of study. The mutual transformative potential of both biomedical artifacts and practices and the new contexts of application have so far been undertheorized in medical anthropology-a gap that we aim to close with our reflections and the collection of empirical studies of various biomedical techniques in this issue.

Organisation(s)
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
External organisation(s)
Iscte-University Institute of Lisbon , Independent researcher
Journal
Medical Anthropology
Volume
31
Pages
179-195
No. of pages
17
ISSN
0145-9740
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2011.636410
Publication date
2012
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
504017 Cultural anthropology, 504009 Ethnology
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/biomedical-techniques-in-context-on-the-appropriation-of-biomedical-procedures-and-artifacts-introduction(e19a3547-b7d1-4941-8ce5-b68f43bef3db).html