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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2019

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319906768

Full citation:

Heiner Fangerau (ed), Handbook of popular culture and biomedicine, Berlin, Springer, 2019

Handbook of popular culture and biomedicine

Contents

The medicalization of popular culture

epistemical, ethical and aesthetical structures of biomedical knowledge as cultural artefact

Arno Görgen, Heiner Fangerau

1-12

Insights into insights

visual narratives of medical imaging and intervention technologies and the popular viscourse

Anna L. Roethe

139-156

Medical narratives in the south African novel

case study of Chris Karsten's trilogy the skin collector (2012), the Skinner's revenge (2013) and face-off (2014)

Karen Ferreira-Meyers

195-206

Dis/ability

the construction of norms and normality in popular culture

Simon Ledder, Catharina Münte

207-227

Between utopia and dystopia

contemporary art and its conflicting representations of scientific knowledge

245-258

With great power comes changing representations

from radiation to genetics in the origin of spider-man

Simon Locke

259-270

The scientific enterprise illustrated

abduction, discovery and creativity

301-306

Consuming, experiencing, and governing

setting the scene for public encounters with biomedicine

Anda Adamsone-Fiskovica

323-335