This paper examines the social construction of diagnosis and illness in several ways. First, I
discuss the centrality of social construction in medical sociology. Next I discuss the major …

It is now impossible to imagine a world without sex hormones. Women all over the world
take hormonal pills to control their fertility and estrogen and progesterone have become the …

The aim of this essay is to synthesize and review the organizational literature on innovation
and to indicate how these more general models and concepts apply in the special case of …

In the highly contentious abortion arena, the new oral abortifacient technology RU486 is one
among many actors. This article offers an arena analysis of the heterogeneous constructions …

This paper examines the intellectual roots of the medicalization of menopause in the 1930s
and 1940s. An analysis of published papers written by prominent American medical …

Cyborgs are symbiotic fusions of organic life and technological systems. From the Six-Million-
Dollar man to the Terminator, cyborgs have populated the American cold-war space-race …

In recent years medicalization, the process of making something medical, has gained
considerable ground and a position in everyday discourse. In this multidisciplinary collection …

Studies of the creation of networks in science have rarely focused on the role of research
materials in establishing relations between actors. This paper considers the question of how …

2 Feminist Review ally, his participation in the homelands being tolerated as a way of
subverting the bantustan strategy from within (Mare and Hamilton, 1987; Mzala, 1988) …

Through a case analysis of how medicine's intra-occupational division of labor responded to
the development of gastrointestinal endoscopy, this article sheds light on how occupational …