ISSN:
1552-8251
,
1552-8251
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (29 Seiten)
Publ. der Quelle:
: Sage Publications
Angaben zur Quelle:
36,5, Seiten 723-751
DDC:
301
Keywords:
cardiovascular risk
;
prevention
;
heterogeneous engineering
;
ordering
;
overweight
;
Soziologie und Anthropologie
;
Medizin und Gesundheit
;
Krankheiten
Abstract:
Cardiovascular diseases present the leading cause of death worldwide. Over the last decade, their preventio has become not only a central medical and public health issue but also a matter of political concern as well as a major market for pharma, nutrition, and exercise. A preventive assemblage has formed that integrates diverse kinds of knowledges, technologies, and actors, from molecular biology to social work, to foster a specific healthy lifestyle. In this article, the authors analyze this preventive assemblage as a heterogeneous engineer, that is, as an attempt to order complex everyday life into an architecture of modernism. This article draws on research conducted as part of the interdisciplinary research cluster ‘‘preventive self’’ (2006-2009) bringing together analyses from social anthropology, history, linguistics, sociology of knowledge, and medicine. The authors report here primarily from ethnographic investigations into biomedical research, primary care, and educational practices in kindergartens. The authors conclude that the preventive assemblage largely fails to install any kind of singular order. Instead, it is translated into existing orderings producing heterogeneity of a different nuance.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
Note:
Article first published online: January 28, 2011; Issue published: September 1, 2011.
Dieser Beitrag ist mit Zustimmung des Rechteinhabers aufgrund einer (DFG-geförderten) Allianz- bzw. Nationallizenz frei zugänglich.
,
Published first as (erstmalig folgendermaßen erschienen):
Jörg Niewöhner, Martin Döring, Michalis Kontopodis, Jeannette Madarász, and Christoph
Heintze: “Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany. An Investigation into
a Heterogeneous Engineering Project”. In: Science, Technology & Human Values 36.5 (2011),
pages 723–751.
DOI:
10.1177/0162243910392797
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/18852-4
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