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Toxic Beauties: MEDICINE, INFORMATION, AND BODY CONSUMPTION IN TRANSNATIONAL EUROPE
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): 115–129.
Published: 01 September 2001
...C. Nadia Seremetakis ST 68-06 Seremetakis 10/25/01 3:07 PM Page 115
Toxic Beauties
MEDICINE, INFORMATION, AND BODY CONSUMPTION...
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Worlding Oneness: Daoism, Heidegger, and Possibilities for Treating the Human
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Social Text (2011) 29 (4 (109)): 107–128.
Published: 01 December 2011
... of traditional Chinese medicine, this essay explores possibilities for thinking, doing, and being human that unsettle various strategies of bifurcation both constitutive and symptomatic of modernist humanism. The exploration unfolds through, first, an examination of the historical and conceptual congruence...
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Social Text (2020) 38 (1 (142)): 89–107.
Published: 01 March 2020
... medicotechnological deployments of care? What can suspicion toward biomedical and technological forms of care teach us about histories of risk, medicine, and the imperative to care in the postcolonial world? This article wrestles with these questions. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Barbados between 2015...
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Monkey Business: Interspecies Longing and Scientific Prophecy in Experimental Xenotransplantation
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 43–69.
Published: 01 March 2011
...Lesley A. Sharp Within contemporary realms of experimental medicine, xenotransplantation ranks as the quintessential example of attempts at interspecies science. Driven by widespread anxieties over national (and, increasingly, global) scarcities in transplantable human parts, xenotransplantation...
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“This Isn’t the South Bronx”: Race, Criminality, and Disability in the Contemporary Opioid Epidemic
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Social Text (2020) 38 (3 (144)): 27–53.
Published: 01 September 2020
.... race disability opioid epidemic medicine law 5 The fifth edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (2013: 481–90) lists substance use disorder as a mental disorder. In contrast to the revised fourth edition, published in 2000...
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The Commons as Accumulation Strategy: Postgenomic Mutations in Biological Property
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Social Text (2019) 37 (2): 1–28.
Published: 01 June 2019
... Narratives of Heroism and Villainy: A Case Study of Myriad’s BRACAnalysis Compared to Genetech’s Herceptin .” Genome Medicine 5 , no. 8 ( 2013 ): 1 – 14 . Bell Derrick . We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice . New York : Basic , 1989 . Benjamin Ruha . “ Innovating...
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Short Cuts: Metabolic Surgery and Gut Attachments in India
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Social Text (2014) 32 (3 (120)): 69–86.
Published: 01 September 2014
... interior
and the exterior world. Rather than medicine or even surgery writ large,
it is metabolic strength that realizes willful life. Metabolic surgery makes
this strong porosity both the linchpin and the rationale for its intervention...
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Globalizing Untouchability: Grief and The Politics of Depressing Speech
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Social Text (2006) 24 (1 (86)): 81–102.
Published: 01 March 2006
... to the the language
doctor.” “They never feed their babies warm food.” “Those people never
of responsibility
get injections/take medicine/see the doctor.” “They live in such filth.”
“Those people never give their children upar...
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Immune Communities, Common Immunities
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Social Text (2008) 26 (1 (94)): 95–114.
Published: 01 March 2008
... of explanations in medicine is always a choice of values.
— Lawrence Kirmayer, “Mind and Body as Metaphors: Hidden
Values in Biomedicince”
When biomedicine speaks the truth it also speaks morals.
— Didier Fassin, When Bodies Remember
For the last seven years, the government...
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“You Make Me Feel Right Quare”: Promiscuous Reading, Minoritarian Critique, and White Sovereign Entrepreneurial Terror
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Social Text (2017) 35 (4): 53–86.
Published: 01 December 2017
... Michelle . 2012 . The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color-blindness . New York : New Press . Anderson Ann . 2000 . Snake Oil, Hustlers, and Hambones: The American Medicine Show . New York : McFarland . Berlant Lauren . 2008 . The Female Complaint...
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Hysteria and History: A MEDITATION ON MEXICO
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Social Text (2007) 25 (3 (92)): 85–101.
Published: 01 September 2007
... it is that after hysteria declined as a medical
diagnosis and psychiatrists declared it officially dead, the condition of
hysteria reappeared in new research fields that were not properly those
of medicine and psychiatry. Thus, in an article that proposes to group
all these various studies...
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Terminality
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Social Text (2017) 35 (2 (131)): 93–118.
Published: 01 June 2017
... Subjectivities .” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness, and Medicine 12 , no. 2 : 25 – 42 . Baszanger Isabelle . 2012 . “ One More Chemo or One Too Many? Defining the Limits of Treatment and Innovation in Medical Oncology .” Social Science and Medicine 75...
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Photographs of “Waiting Children”: THE TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION MARKET
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Social Text (2003) 21 (1 (74)): 83–109.
Published: 01 March 2003
... to submit photographs or video footage
they provided, along with the child’s sometimes sketchy medical records,
for evaluation to one of a handful of practices specializing in adoption
medicine before making a commitment to one child. In this use, the image
functions somewhat like prenatal test data...
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In the Clinic: THE MEDICALIZATION OF WELFARE
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Social Text (2000) 18 (1 (62)): 81–107.
Published: 01 March 2000
... in particular trades and professions. Welfare
turns to “technologies of the self” and as a result has been medicalized far
beyond past practice.40
Beyond Discipline: Monitoring as Medicine
There are growing reasons to suggest that Lawrence...
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Specimens as Spectacles: Reframing Fetal Remains
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 103–125.
Published: 01 March 2011
... a trail through the history of modern science and
medicine that begins with the curiosity cabinet and later influences pho-
tography and modern art.4
As art historian Barbara Maria Stafford has documented, displays...
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Thinking with Trans Now
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Social Text (2020) 38 (4 (145)): 125–147.
Published: 01 December 2020
... and planning into everyday life, as the health, wellness, and potential of racialized populations were articulated as a measure of national economic productivity. Military Keynesianism helped set the terms for the materialization of the question of transsexual and transgender in medicine through the expansion...
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The Activist State: GLOBAL PHARMACEUTICALS, AIDS, AND CITIZENSHIP IN BRAZIL
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Social Text (2004) 22 (3 (80)): 105–132.
Published: 01 September 2004
..., “given extreme budget con-
straints and the impact that the forthcoming currency devaluation would
116 João Biehl
have on imported medicines.”56 In 1999, 81 percent of the government’s
expenses with AIDS drugs went to multinationals and only 19 percent...
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Footnotes in the Order of Disappearance
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Social Text (2017) 35 (1 (130)): 127–128.
Published: 01 March 2017
... a tear in his pupillary sphincter. Her eyes were blue her iris orange. JFK’s adrenal disease, that bronze we took for gold, and Lord Jeffrey, my smallpox Lord. As for Familial Mediterranean Fever it belongs to everyone. Humanitarian medicine is infectious, its donors stem cell. Those who...
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Contributors
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Social Text (2001) 19 (3 (68)): np.
Published: 01 September 2001
... Feldman 57
The Violence of Commodity Aesthetics: Hawkers, Demolition
Raids, and a New Regime of Consumption Arvind Rajagopal 91
Toxic Beauties: Medicine, Information, and Body Consumption
in Transnational Europe C. Nadia Seremetakis 115...
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Sir Hans Sloane's Milk Chocolate and the Whole History of the Cacao
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Social Text (2011) 29 (1 (106)): 71–101.
Published: 01 March 2011
... Want to Go to) Chelsea
Commemorations of Sir Hans Sloane (1660–1753), one of the pivotal
figures in early modern British science and medicine, turn on the ambigu-
ous relation between the production of natural knowledge and its com-
mercial exploitation. This relation is neatly expressed...
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