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Attribuer des sautes d’humeur aux hormones pour mieux refuser la pilule ? Faire du bégaiement un problème cérébral pour déculpabiliser les parents d’enfants bègues ? Envisager la dépression comme un manque de sérotonine auprès de patient·es hospitalisé·es en psychiatrie ?Voici autant de situations où, dans la relation soignant·e/soigné·e, les répertoires argumentatifs s’appuient prioritairement sur une référence à la biologie, au détriment d’autres types d’interprétations. Ce sont ces importations d’une grille d’analyse biologisante – désignées ici sous le terme de biologisation – qui sont explorées dans cet ouvrage. En se focalisant sur le domaine de la santé, il s’agit de comprendre dans quelle mesure les différents acteurs et actrices de ce champ (individus usagers, puissance publique, professionnel·les…) font appel à « l’argument biologique » pour défendre leurs pratiques et leurs représentations : quand, comment, avec quels effets et à quelles fins sont priorisées des causalités biologiques relativement à des causalités sociales ?Les études de terrains ethnographiques et les réflexions théoriques rassemblées ici s’adressent aux chercheur·es en sciences humaines et sociales mais pourront intéresser plus largement des professionnel·les de santé ou toute personne intéressée par les rapports de pouvoir traversant les questions de soin. -- French This book deals with the phenomena of “biologisation” in the field of health, i.e. all situations where biological causality prevails in establishing the determinants of human health, to the detriment of other interpretations. It is based on ethnographic field studies carried out with caregivers and patients by researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and on socio-historical discussions to clarify the proposed concept. This collective work extends the existing work on biologisation by considering its “practical” dimension: which actors in the field of health mobilise these biologising arguments? In which contexts? To what ends, and with what effects? -- English

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Wir leben im Zeitalter des asymptomatischen Menschen. Die Medikalisierung unserer Lebenswelt ist so weit vorangeschritten, dass Krankheitsbegriffe, die unseren Alltag maßgeblich prägen, kaum noch Überschneidungen mit unserer sinnlichen Erfahrung aufweisen. Lebenswissenschaften, Biotechnologien und Versorgungssysteme bestimmen unseren Umgang mit Gegenwart, Körper und Macht. Bildgebende Verfahren und Bioinformatik verwandeln medizinische Prognostik in einen selbstreferenziellen Wert. Hans Vogt zeigt: Nicht mehr nur bestimmte Lebensabschnitte haben Krankheitsstatus. Vielmehr bewegt sich der Mensch der Spätmoderne stets in fließend ineinander übergehenden Modulationen einer lebenslangen Diagnose.

Alzheimer; Demenz; Medikalisierung; Neurowissenschaften; Biopolitik; Alter; Medizin; Gesellschaft; Medizinsoziologie; Körper; Soziologie; Alzheimer's Disease; Dementia; Medicalization; Neuroscience; Biopolitics; Aging Studies; Medicine; Society; Sociology of Medicine; Body; Sociology --- Aging Studies. --- Biopolitics. --- Body. --- Dementia. --- Medicalization. --- Medicine. --- Neuroscience. --- Society. --- Sociology of Medicine. --- Sociology.

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First published in 1690, The Court Midwife made Justine Siegemund (1636-1705) the spokesperson for the art of midwifery at a time when most obstetrical texts were written by men. More than a technical manual, The Court Midwife contains descriptions of obstetric techniques of midwifery and its attendant social pressures. Siegemund's visibility as a writer, midwife, and proponent of an incipient professionalism accorded her a status virtually unknown to German women in the seventeenth century. Translated here into English for the first time, The Court Midwife contains riveting birthing scenes, sworn testimonials by former patients, and a brief autobiography.

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How youth on the autism spectrum negotiate the contested meanings of neurodiversityAutism is a deeply contested condition. To some, it is a devastating invader, harming children and isolating them. To others, it is an asset and a distinctive aspect of an individual's identity. How do young people on the spectrum make sense of this conflict, in the context of their own developing identity? While most of the research on Asperger's and related autism conditions has been conducted with individuals or in settings in which people on the spectrum are in the minority, this book draws on two years of ethnographic work in communities that bring people with Asperger's and related conditions together. It can thus begin to explore a form of autistic culture, through attending to how those on the spectrum make sense of their conditions through shared social practices.Elizabeth Fein brings her many years of experience in both clinical psychology and psychological anthropology to analyze the connection between neuropsychological difference and culture. She argues that current medical models, which espouse a limited definition, are ill equipped to deal with the challenges of discussing autism-related conditions. Consequently, youths on the autism spectrum reach beyond medicine for their stories of difference and disorder, drawing instead on shared mythologies from popular culture and speculative fiction to conceptualize their experience of changing personhood. In moving and persuasive prose, Living on the Spectrum illustrates that young people use these stories to pioneer more inclusive understandings of what makes us who we are.

Youth. --- Speculative fiction. --- Special education. --- Social skills. --- Social capital. --- School-based ethnography. --- Neurostructural. --- Neuroscience. --- Neurodiversity. --- Neurodevelopmental. --- Neurodevelopmental turn. --- Neurochemical. --- Neural plasticity. --- Looping effects. --- Live-action roleplaying games. --- Late modernity. --- LARP. --- Institutional individualization. --- Individualism. --- Identity. --- Fantasy. --- Ethnography. --- Divided medicalization. --- Developmental disability. --- Connectome. --- Clinical ethnography. --- Cerebral subjectification. --- Brainhood. --- Autism. --- Affinity group;Aspergers. --- Affinity group. --- Aspergers. --- Identity (Philosophical concept). --- Developmental disabilities.

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Motherhood --- Child care --- Medicalization --- Maternal health services --- Child health services --- Jewish women --- African American women --- Afro-American women --- Women, African American --- Women, Negro --- Women --- Women, Jewish --- Children --- Maternal and child health services --- Mother and child health services --- Medical care --- Health services, Maternal --- Maternal and infant health services --- Maternal health care --- Maternity care --- Mothers --- Perinatal care --- Safe motherhood programs --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive health services --- Women's health services --- Maternal and infant welfare --- Social medicine --- Maternity --- Parenthood --- Social aspects --- Services for