Co-edited with Regula Burri in 2008. Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life (Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society), best described through contents:
Introduction REGULA VALÉRIE BURRI AND JOSEPH DUMIT PART
I Social and cultural studies of biomedicine
1 Medicalizing culture(s) or culturalizing medicine(s) STEFAN BECK
2 Metaphors of medicine and the culture of healing: Historical perspectives JAKOB TANNER
3 Medicine as practice and culture: The analysis of border regimes and the necessity of a hermeneutics of physical bodies 47 GESA LINDEMANN PART
II Epistemic practices and material culture(s)
4 The future is now: Locating biomarkers for dementia MARGARET LOCK
5 Embodied action, enacted bodies: The example of hypoglycaemia ANNEMARIE MOL AND JOHN LAW
6 Sociotechnical anatomy: Technology, space, and body in the MRI unit 109 REGULA VALÉRIE BURRI
7 Risk and safety in the operating theater: An ethnographic study of sociotechnical practices 123 CORNELIUS SCHUBERT
PART III Biomedical knowledge in context
8 Genomic susceptibility as an emergent form of life? Genetic testing, identity, and the remit of medicine NIKOLAS ROSE
9 Susceptible individuals and risky rights: Dimensions of genetic responsibility THOMAS LEMKE
10 “Pop genes”: An investigation of “the gene” in popular parlance BARBARA DUDEN AND SILJA SAMERSKI
11 Genetics and its publics: Crafting genetic literacy and identity in the early twenty-first century KAREN-SUE TAUSSIG
12 Constructing the digital patient: Patient organizations and the development of health websites NELLY OUDSHOORN AND ANDRÉ SOMERS
Epilogue: Indeterminate lives, demands, relations: Emergent bioscapes JOSEPH DUMIT AND REGULA VALÉRIE BURRI