Resumen: Introduction
Joseph E. Davis
Part I: Reductionist Medicine
1. Reductionist Medicine and Its Cultural Authority
Joseph E. Davis
2. Metrics and Measurement: The New Professional Management and Health Care in the Audit Society
Charles Bosk, et al.
3. The Rise and Fall of the Official View of Addiction
Bruce K. Alexander
Part II: New Regimes of Disease and Public Health
4. After the Therapeutic Revolution: The Return to Prevention in Medical Policy and Practice
Anne Hardy
5. The Global Threat of (Re)emerging Diseases: Contesting the Adequacy of Biomedical Discourse and Practice
Jon Arrizabalaga
6. Digitized Health Promotion: Risk and Personal Responsibility for Health and Illness in the Web 2.0 Era
Deborah Lupton
Part III: The Expanding Medical Domain
7. An Impression of Disorder: Diagnosis, Metaphor, and Medicalization
Joseph E. Davis
8. The Problem of Suffering in the Age of Prozac
Christina Simko
9. Whither the Neuroscience Revolution: From Medicalization to Enhancement?
Luis Echarte Alonso
Part IV: Bioethics and Moral Discourse
10. Bioethics and Medicalization
John H. Evans
11. Policing the Good Life
Jeffrey P. Bishop
12. The Ethical Challenge of Medical Discourse
Ana Marta González
Conclusion
Robert Dingwall