Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?

Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?

This article reviews recent work in the social study of science (Social Studies of Knowledge or SSK), as well as in cultural studies and feminist criticism of the physical sciences, in order to demonstrate the contribution made by these fields of study, and their reading of the history of very recen...

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Auteur principal: Gardey, Delphine
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Langue:Anglais
Publié: Clio 2017
Sujets:
body
gender
medicine
science
bio-technical innovation
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spelling openedition-oai:revues.org:cliowgh_404 https://doi.org/10.4000/cliowgh.404 urn:doi:10.4000/cliowgh.404 en https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh/404 2017-04-20T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/e3rs All rights reserved Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward? Clio Belin info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2554-3822 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/cliowgh Gardey, Delphine body gender medicine science bio-technical innovation This article reviews recent work in the social study of science (Social Studies of Knowledge or SSK), as well as in cultural studies and feminist criticism of the physical sciences, in order to demonstrate the contribution made by these fields of study, and their reading of the history of very recent bio-medical innovations in the spheres of human reproduction and sexuality. In particular, publications in SSK have suggested a dense and complex reading of human-technological relations, and of the ways in which social and gender relations are implicated in them. Considering the parallel between some of these approaches (themselves part of the “descriptive turn” in the social sciences) and broader economic and social change (the reconfiguration of the self through biotechnologies as an individual promise in a neo-liberal context) the article seeks to envisage how a revitalized historical approach might contribute to these subjects. It might, for example, make more explicit the density of the social and scientific context within which certain technological change occurs; demonstrate the historicity of what is at stake for gender and social relations; and propose a new set of narratives which would recognize the normative political and economic dimensions of technological change.
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topic body
gender
medicine
science
bio-technical innovation
spellingShingle body
gender
medicine
science
bio-technical innovation
Gardey, Delphine
Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?
description This article reviews recent work in the social study of science (Social Studies of Knowledge or SSK), as well as in cultural studies and feminist criticism of the physical sciences, in order to demonstrate the contribution made by these fields of study, and their reading of the history of very recent bio-medical innovations in the spheres of human reproduction and sexuality. In particular, publications in SSK have suggested a dense and complex reading of human-technological relations, and of the ways in which social and gender relations are implicated in them. Considering the parallel between some of these approaches (themselves part of the “descriptive turn” in the social sciences) and broader economic and social change (the reconfiguration of the self through biotechnologies as an individual promise in a neo-liberal context) the article seeks to envisage how a revitalized historical approach might contribute to these subjects. It might, for example, make more explicit the density of the social and scientific context within which certain technological change occurs; demonstrate the historicity of what is at stake for gender and social relations; and propose a new set of narratives which would recognize the normative political and economic dimensions of technological change.
author Gardey, Delphine
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title Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?
title_short Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?
title_full Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?
title_fullStr Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?
title_full_unstemmed Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?
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