Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
Intersections of Inquiry

Table of Contents

1. Introduction Alberto Cambrosio, Allan Young and Margaret Lock
Part I. Epochal Transitions? Biomedicine and the Transformation of Socionature:
2. Beyond nature and culture: modes of reasoning in the age of molecular biology and medicine Hans-Jorg Rheinberger
3. Epochs, presents, events Paul Rabinow
Part II. Laboratories and Clinics: The Material Culture of Biomedicine:
4. Trustworthy knowledge and desperate patients: clinical tests for new drugs from cancer to AIDS Ilana Lowy
5. Pathology and the clinic: an ethnographic presentation of two atheroscleroses Annemarie Mol
6. 'Real compared to what?': diagnosing leukemias and lymphomas Peter Keating and Alberto Cambrosio
7. History, hystery, and psychiatric styles of reasoning Allan Young
Part III. Technologies and Bodies: The Extended Networks of Biomedicine:
8. Screening the body: the Pap smear and the mammogram Patricia A. Kaufert
9. Extra chromosomes and blue tulips: medico-familial interpretations Rayna Rapp
10. When explanations rest: 'good-enough' brain science and the new sociomedical disorders Joseph Dumit
11. On dying twice: culture, technology, and the determination of death Margaret Lock
12. The practice of organ transplants: networks, documents, translations Veena Das.

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