{"title":"Susan Greenhalgh","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSusan Greenhalgh\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations at the intersection of technology, science, and society. Her works delve into complex subjects such as industrial innovation and medical observation, presenting them with clarity and depth that appeal to both academic audiences and curious minds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect carefully researched texts that blend technical knowledge with cultural analysis, making her books valuable resources for those interested in \u003cem\u003eEngineering \u0026amp; Technology\u003c\/em\u003e as well as \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Public health critics pointed to sugary soda as a main culprit and advocated for soda taxes that might decrease the consumption of sweetened beverages—and threaten the revenues of the giant soda companies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoda Science\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of how industry leader Coca-Cola mobilised allies in academia to create a soda-defence science that would protect profits by advocating exercise, not dietary restraint, as the priority solution to obesity, a view few experts accept. Anthropologist and science studies specialist Susan Greenhalgh discovers a hidden world of science-making—with distinctive organisations, social networks, knowledge-making practices, and ethical claims—dedicated to creating industry-friendly science and keeping it under wraps. By tracing the birth, maturation, death, and afterlife of the science they made, Greenhalgh shows how corporate science has managed to gain such a hold over our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSpanning twenty years, her investigation takes her from the US, where the science was made, to China, a key market for sugary soda. In the US, soda science was a critical force in the making of today's society of step-counting, fitness-tracking, weight-obsessed citizens. In China, this distorted science has left its mark not just on national obesity policies but on the apparatus for managing chronic disease generally. By following the scientists and their ambitious schemes to make the world safe for Coke, Greenhalgh offers an account that is more global—and yet more human—than the story that dominates public understanding today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCoke's research isn't fake science, Greenhalgh argues; it was real science, conducted by real and eminent scientists, but distorted by its aim. Her gripping book raises crucial questions about conflicts of interest in scientific research, the funding behind familiar messages about health, and the cunning ways giant corporations come to shape our diets, lifestyles, and health to their own needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384002330860,"sku":"9780226834733","price":47.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20575613482268.jpg?v=1773394129"},{"product_id":"under-the-medical-gaze-by-susan-greenhalgh-9780520223981","title":"Under the Medical Gaze","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis compelling account of the author's experience with a chronic pain disorder and subsequent interaction with the American health care system goes to the heart of the workings of power and culture in the biomedical domain. 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Greenhalgh traces the ruinous effects of this diagnosis on her inner world, bodily health, and overall well-being.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnder the Medical Gaze\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a powerful illustration of medicine's power to create and inflict suffering, to define disease and the self, and to manage relationships and lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreenhalgh ultimately learns that she had been misdiagnosed and begins the long process of undoing the physical and emotional damage brought about by her nearly catastrophic treatment. In considering how things could go so awry, she embarks on a cogent and powerful analysis of the sociopolitical sources of pain through feminist, cultural, and political understandings of the nature of medical discourse and practice in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShe develops fresh arguments about the power of medicine to medicalize our selves and lives, the seductions of medical science, and the deep, psychologically rooted difficulties women patients face in interactions with male physicians. 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