... Bioethics medical technologies aging population medical anthropology health policy ...

... medical technologies implantable cardiac defibrillator kidney dialysis liver transplantation Medicare eligibility ...

... This chapter shows how the press for new technologies in U.S. health care complicates the goals of medical practice in our aging society. It examines three types of treatment—the implantable cardiac defibrillator, kidney dialysis, and liver transplantation—to reveal how technological innovations...

... introduces the field of ethical choices that infuses the operation of this chain. Such ethical choices determine the goals of clinical research, which therapies are considered appropriate, and how doctors and patients respond. Bioethics medical technologies aging population medical anthropology...

... This section returns to the contradictions built into cure and its promise that medical technology can align people’s bodies with what they desire. The author explores these contradictions by expanding on his story of chest reconstruction surgery, laying his desire for a flat chest alongside...

... medical-industrial complex trouble cure technologies ...

.... Bioethics medical technologies aging population medical anthropology health policy ...

...Medicine’s Changing Means and Ends This chapter shows how the press for new technologies in U.S. health care complicates the goals of medical practice in our aging society. It examines three types of treatment—the implantable cardiac defibrillator, kidney dialysis, and liver transplantation...

... identity, and his desire for and ambivalence about female-to-male chest reconstruction surgery. The story of his desire and ambivalence is used to dig farther into the complexities of cure, diagnosis (specifically gender identity disorder), and the use of medical technology. monoculture...

... identity, and his desire for and ambivalence about female-to-male chest reconstruction surgery. The story of his desire and ambivalence is used to dig farther into the complexities of cure, diagnosis (specifically gender identity disorder), and the use of medical technology. shame pride Ashley X...

.... This section asks, what realities are defined as trouble by whom and for whose benefit? Lastly, there is an examination of different kinds of cure—reliable, risky, ambiguous, experimental, and imaginary—and different kinds of cure technologies, some of them medical and others not. medical-industrial...

... people access to vital medical technology and shame them, reveal a path toward less pain and get them locked up. The analysis focuses on diagnosis as a tool and an action rather than a truth and asks the question, to whom is diagnosis useful and for what purposes? This query helps frame a critique...

... to this point are entrenched and ongoing—especially the dominance of private industry in health care services, the priority given to technology use regardless of cost, and the lack of equity in the distribution of medical care—they continue to derail the practice of medicine and the entire health care delivery...

... Accompaniment is defined as the relationships between a disabled person and three different entities: embodied technologies (including hardware and software, prosthetics, medications, canes, wheelchairs, door openers, and furniture); bodyminds (including animals, friends, antagonists, family...

...: the fact that the pharmaceutical and biotech industries and the for-profit market for technologies have a growing impact on shaping research agendas and thus on shaping treatments. Medicare treatment standards Big Pharma medical cost reimbursement ...

... a comprehensive analysis of threats and opportunities in all areas of the medical center, identified investment opportunities, set performance expectations, and developed resource priorities that transcended the interest of any single department or entity within the institution. Dr. Snyderman became increasingly...

... and large-scale vital systems, making the neoliberal immune system a key node in the national defense. This channeling of fear into optimism in state technologies of control—dread life—unleashed new practices of decolonization by turning medical knowledges, treatment protocols, patient collectives, social...

.... Appointment Promotion and Tenure process Biomedical research Interdisciplinary research programs Long Range Plan Office of Science and Technology The changes to the Duke University Medical Center launched during Dr. Snyderman’s first term as Chancellor, however necessary, generated much resistance...

...” means that global health commodities like drugs, medical devices, water engineering, and care itself are only sometimes assessed in terms of improvements in human corporeal health and well-being. Increasingly the purpose of metrics is also to assess how much money any given technology, commodity...