TY - BOOK ID - 46207755 TI - Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine : Knowledge in the Life Sciences as Cultural Artefact AU - Görgen, Arno. AU - Nunez, German Alfonso. AU - Fangerau, Heiner. PY - 2019 SN - 331990678X 3319906771 3319906763 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Social medicine. KW - Medicine. KW - Bioethics. KW - Civilization-History. KW - Culture-Study and teaching. KW - Medical Sociology. KW - Popular Science in Medicine and Health. KW - Cultural History. KW - Cultural and Media Studies, general. KW - Biology KW - Biomedical ethics KW - Life sciences KW - Life sciences ethics KW - Science KW - Clinical sciences KW - Medical profession KW - Human biology KW - Medical sciences KW - Pathology KW - Physicians KW - Medical care KW - Medical sociology KW - Medicine KW - Medicine, Social KW - Public health KW - Public welfare KW - Sociology KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical sociologists KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Social aspects KW - Health Workforce KW - Medicine . KW - Health. KW - Civilization—History. KW - Culture—Study and teaching. KW - Personal health KW - Wellness KW - Physiology KW - Diseases KW - Holistic medicine KW - Hygiene KW - Well-being UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46207755 AB - This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact while simultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new field of enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics, from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entry points to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what we learn about (and from) scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture. Divided into three sections the handbook surveys the basics, the micro-, and the macroaspects of this interaction between specialized knowledge and cultural production: After the introduction of basic concepts of and approaches to the topic from a variety of disciplines, the respective theories and methods are applied in specific case studies. The final section is concerned with larger social and historical trends of the use of biomedical knowledge in popular culture. Presenting over twenty-five original articles from international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, this handbook introduces the topic of pop culture and biomedicine to both new and mature researchers alike. The articles, all complete with a rich source of further references, are aimed at being a sincere entry point to researchers and academic educators interested in this somewhat unexplored field of culture and biomedicine. ER -