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Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction:
Medicine in Society
Mediatized Health
Medicine in the Media: ‘Do text in your body parts’
Health & Medicine in Cyberspace
The Internet as a Mass Medium?
Overview of Text
SECTION ONE:
CYBERMEDICAL DISCOURSE
Chapter 1:
Medicalization in Cyberspace
Medicalization & Medical Sociology
Consuming Medicalization
Chapter 2:
Cybermedical Bodies
Digital Culture Retrospective
The Cyborg Ritual
Visible Humans in BodyWorlds
Chapter 3:
Cybermedicine & Reliability Discourse
Beyond Information
The medical control of health information
Chapter 4:
Virtual Governance of Health Behaviour
Public Health Promotion in Cyberspace
The healthy cyber citizen
The commercialisation of obesity discourse in cyberspace
Digital Self-Governance
Virtual Morality |
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Chapter 5:
Cyberpatients, Illness Narratives and medicalization
Online health communities
Illness narratives
Persistent Sexual Arousal Syndrome and the contradictory culture of cybermedicalization
SECTION TWO: CYBER BODIES
Chapter 6:
Partial Prostitution
The eBay Auction for a Human Kidney
Not Another Human Clone!
Egg Pharm, Inc
Chapter 7:
Biological Property Rights in Cyberspace
Reproductive Rights in Cyberspace
Intellectual & Biological Property Rights
Viagra, Spam & CyberPharmacies
The End of Medical History and The Last Prosthesis
Chapter 8:
The Online Pro-Ana Movement
Pro-Ana environments
The politics of Pro-Ana
Pro-Ana and Cybermedicalization
Pro-Ana Bodies
Chapter 9:
The Bioethics of Cybermedicalization
The Ethics Within Pro-Ana
Posthumanism: The Absent Present
Textual Bodies
Prosthetic Burdens
Conclusion:
After-Cyborgs or Artificial Life
Afterword
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