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Cardiovascular Disease and Obesity Prevention in Germany ...
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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 ...
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Keyword:
301 Soziologie, Anthropologie; 610 Medizin und Gesundheit; 616 Krankheiten; cardiovascular risk; heterogeneous engineering; ordering; overweight; prevention
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URL: https://edoc.hu-berlin.de/handle/18452/18852
https://dx.doi.org/10.18452/18181
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