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- Johnson, Ericka, 1973-, et al.
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Enrolling Men, their Doctors, and Partners : Individual and Collective Responses to Erectile Dysfunction
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Ingår i: Science & Technology Studies. - Tampere : Finnish Society for Science and Technology Studies. - 2243-4690. ; 25:2, s. 46-60
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using the Pfizer funded Swedish informational site about erectile dysfunction (ED), www.potenslinjen.se, we examine how potential users, their partners, and medical doctors are enrolled in the process of creating the Swedish Viagra user. Contextualized against other critical work on Viagra, our analysis shows how the commercial discourse embeds the ED patient into a network of actors. Three separate actors are co-constituted and enrolled by this erectile dysfunction information discourse, comprising Viagra marketing material in a country which forbids direct to consumer advertising of prescription medication. Doctors are enrolled to produce the cultural authority of expert medical knowledge, whereas partners are given responsibility for the emotional aspects of a man’s sexuality and encouraged to direct the man toward the relationship-saving Viagra. Throughout, though, the man is the patient responsible for taking Viagra to fix his dysfunctioning penis. We problematize this individualised solution by contrasting it with the social aspects of the discourse and examining other qualitative and historical studies of impotence. We then ask if the enrolment presented by the Swedish Viagra website could be (mis)used to expand the circle of actors involved in ED, redefi ning the ‘problem’ and opening for a wider variety of treatments.
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- Johnson, Ericka, et al.
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Prescribing for the "Swedish Viagra Man"
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Ingår i: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0009-9236 .- 1532-6535. ; 89:1, s. 15-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Cultural and social studies of sildenafil (Viagra) have shown how it in influence more than just blood flow in the penis. Sildenafil has introduced the term "erectile dysfunction" (ED) to the general public, changing wider cultural perceptions and the treatment of impotence. This article presents results from a study on how this pharmaceutical drug was introduced to a Swedish audience, where direct-to-consumer marketing is not all allowed. Our studies of the online market information (presented as health education) show that not only does the globalization of the pharmaceutical market make medicines available to international consumers, it also spreads ideas about the healthy subjectivities— gendered identities and behaviors—those medicines are prescribing. This, we feel, calls for further critical consideration to articulate the prescribed social practices that prescription medicines carry.
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- Johnson, Ericka, et al.
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Prescribing the Swedish Viagra Man
- 2011
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Ingår i: Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. ; 89:1, s. 15-16
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Technology and medical practice : blood, guts and machines
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Ingår i: Technology and Medical Practice.. - Farnham, England : Ashgate. - 9780754678366 - 9780754696520
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Modern medicine is highly technological, with advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care to provide knowledge about the patient, define bodily states and structure everyday medical interventions and divisions of labour. Whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, however, their design and use may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? How is knowledge negotiated, or relations of power reconfigured?" "Technology and Medical Practice addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care. Technologies are discussed as part of the sociotechnical environment of everyday medical practices, alongside the emotions of trust and distrust, fear, relief and compassion which they involve." --
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- Åsberg, Cecilia, et al.
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Beyond the Humanist Imagination
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Ingår i: NORA. - London : Taylor & Francis. - 0803-8740 .- 1502-394X. ; 19:4, s. 218-230
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- Recent stirrings wihin the humanities and the social sciences, perhaps especially within feminist theory, have engendered new materialist, feminist materialist and posthumanist approaches to life worlds that exceeds the limiting horizon of both andro- and anthopocentrism. This position paper maps out some of these recent theoretical trends of a form of feminist post-humanities with special attention paid to material bodies (transcoproreality), non-human animals and other organisms we are intimately related to, non-human agents of the world, and the environment (environmental humanities).
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