The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well
as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with …

Primary prevention of cardiovascular disease has been a site of medicalisation, as
demonstrated by the significant increase in the use of cholesterol-lowering drugs, statins …

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The power of social actors to drive or block pharmaceutical uptake has been a concern in
sociological debates on pharmaceuticalisation, including in the case of pandemic …

This article considers wide-ranging heart-centered approaches to understanding bodies,
objects, and personhood. It puts these into in tension with other ways of approaching …

In times of a pandemic, the world lives in the throes of colossal economic and public health
crises. The world seems unprepared and ill-equipped to cater to the catastrophic pandemic …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains the leading cause of death globally. A class of
medications, known as statins, lowers low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, which are …

Back‐pain patients in the US may undergo multiple surgeries in search of relief, enduring a
sometimes‐stunning repetition of procedures that can actually intensify and extend their …

Trends toward pharmaceuticalization in Western countries have led to increased research
and theorizing about the roles macro-level institutions, structures, and collective actors play …

In her famous book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Rebecca Skloot describes not only
scientific importance of using HeLa cells in biomedical research, but also the fact that the …