Handbook of Popular Culture and Biomedicine

This handbook explores the ways biomedicine and pop culture interact whilesimultaneously introducing the reader with the tools and ideas behind this new fieldof enquiry. From comic books to health professionals, from the arts to genetics,from sci-fi to medical education, from TV series to ethics, it offers different entrypoints to an exciting and central aspect of contemporary culture: how and what welearn about (and from) scientific knowledge and its representation in pop culture.Divided into three sections the handbook surveys the basics, the micro-, and the macroaspectsof this interaction between specialized knowledge and cultural production:After the introduction of basic concepts of and approaches to the topic from a varietyof disciplines, the respective theories and methods are applied in specific case studies.The final section is concerned with larger social and historical trends of the use ofbiomedical knowledge in popular culture. Presenting over twenty-five original articlesfrom international scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds, this handbookintroduces the topic of pop culture and biomedicine to both new and mature researchersalike. The articles, all complete with a rich source of further references, are aimed atbeing a sincere entry point to researchers and academic educators interested in thissomewhat unexplored field of culture and biomedicine.