Jennifer Ruth Fosket
Biographic Data
| ID | 304391 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Ruth Fosket |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer Ruth |
| FAMILY NAME | Fosket |
| SIGNATURE | FOSKET J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 689 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Biomedicalization
Scripting the Body
This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first extended‐cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly menstruation. Seasonale, we argue, is part of a new class of lifestyle pharmaceuticals, relatively new pharmacological therapies (along with others for the treatment of baldness, sleep difficulties, excessive weight, mild depression, sexual performance, general aging, a…
"Constructing "High-Risk Women
Recently, two prescription drugs (tamoxifen and raloxifene) have become salient to breast cancer prevention. With the advent of these drugs, referred to as "chemoprevention," a mandate has emerged to classify certain women as high risk for breast cancer to determine a group of legitimate users of the drugs. This article examines the development and standardization of the model used to create such a group of high-risk women. The author argues that…
Biomedicalization
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
Biomedicalization
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
Scripting the Body
This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first extended‐cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly menstruation. Seasonale, we argue, is part of a new class of lifestyle pharmaceuticals, relatively new pharmacological therapies (along with others for the treatment of baldness, sleep difficulties, excessive weight, mild depression, sexual performance, general aging, a…
"Constructing "High-Risk Women
Recently, two prescription drugs (tamoxifen and raloxifene) have become salient to breast cancer prevention. With the advent of these drugs, referred to as "chemoprevention," a mandate has emerged to classify certain women as high risk for breast cancer to determine a group of legitimate users of the drugs. This article examines the development and standardization of the model used to create such a group of high-risk women. The author argues that…
Biomedicalization
The first social transformation of American medicine institutionally established medicine by the end of World War II. In the next decades, medicalization-the expansion of medical jurisdiction, authority, and practices into new realms-became widespread. Since about 1985, dramatic changes in both the organization and practices of contemporary biomedicine, implemented largely through the integration of technoscientific innovations, have been coalesc…
"Constructing "High-Risk Women
Recently, two prescription drugs (tamoxifen and raloxifene) have become salient to breast cancer prevention. With the advent of these drugs, referred to as "chemoprevention," a mandate has emerged to classify certain women as high risk for breast cancer to determine a group of legitimate users of the drugs. This article examines the development and standardization of the model used to create such a group of high-risk women. The author argues that…
Scripting the Body
This article provides an analysis of the 2003–4 marketing campaigns for Seasonale, the first extended‐cycle oral contraceptive drug designed to suppress women's and girls' monthly menstruation. Seasonale, we argue, is part of a new class of lifestyle pharmaceuticals, relatively new pharmacological therapies (along with others for the treatment of baldness, sleep difficulties, excessive weight, mild depression, sexual performance, general aging, a…
Biomedicalization
Medicine (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Bioinformatics (1 work) · Biology (1 work) · Biomedicine (1 work)