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Zusatztext 'The book reviews innovative health technologies and associated everyday practices of health as expressions of social relationships...[it] draws a complex map of relationships that sketches the state of the literature on sociological studies on health and technology today [and] will be particularly appealing to academics with advanced knowledge of the field of sociology of health and illness.' - Sociology Informationen zum Autor JOHN ABRAHAM Professor of Sociology and Co-director of Centre for Research in Health and Medicine (CRHaM) at the University of Sussex, UKDAVID ARMSTRONG Reader in Sociology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at King's College School of Medicine, London, UKPAUL ATKINSON Professor of Sociology at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UKADITYA BHARADWAJ Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UKNIK BROWN Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UKJOHN CHATWIN Research Fellow at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UKANGUS CLARKE Professor in Clinical Genetics, Cardiff University, UK and directs the Cardiff MSc course in Genetic CounsellingDAVID CLARK Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UKSIMON COHN Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKJOSEPH CULLEN Principal Researcher and Consultant at The Tavistock Institute, London, UKCOURTNEY DAVIS Research Fellow in Sociology and the Centre for Research in Health and Medicine at the University of Sussex, UKMARK DAVIS Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, UEL, London, UKELIZABETH ETTORRE Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business, University of Plymouth, UKALEX FAULKNER Senior Research Associate at the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UKTRACY FINCH Senior Research Fellow in the Health Technologies and Human Relations research group at the Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR), University of Newcastle, UK PAUL FLOWERS Reader in the Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UKNICK FOX Reader in the Sociology of Health and the Body, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, UKSARAH FRANKLIN Professor in Sociology at BIOS, London School of Economics, UKEILEEN GREEN Professor of Sociology and Director of the centre for Social and Policy Research in the School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside, UKJOSEPHINE GREEN Professor of Psychosocial Reproductive Health and Deputy Director of the Mother and Infant Research Unit at the University of York, UKFRANCES GRIFFITHS Deputy Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick, UKGERARD HANLON Professor of Organization and Society at the Management Centre, University of Leicester, UK JANET HEATON Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, UKFLIS HENWOOD Reader in Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UKJENNY HEWISONProfessor of the Psychology of Health Care, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds, UKJULIE KENT Reader in Sociology in the School of Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKANNE KERR Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of York, UKGLORIA LANKSHEAR Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, UKGILLIAN LEWANDO-HUNDT Professor of Social Sciences in Health and Co-Director of the Institute of Health, School of Health a...
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Tables LIst of Figures Acknowldgements Series Editors' Preface List of Contributions New Technologies in Health Care: Opening the Black Bag: A.Webster PART 1: GENETIC RISK, REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITY The Genetic Iceberg: Risk and Uncertainty: A.Bharadwaj, L.Prior, P.Atkinson, A.Clarke & M.Worwood Navigating the Troubled Waters of Prenatal Testing Decisions: G.Lewando-Hundt, J.Green, J.Sandall & J.Hewison Genetic Ambivalence: Expertise, Uncertainty, and Communication in the Context of New Genetic Technologies: A.Kerr & S.Franklin PART 2: INFORMATION AND EMPOWERMENT 'Pathways to the Doctor' in the Information Age: The Role of ICTS in Contemporary Lay Referral Systems; S.Nettleton & G.Hanlon Desperately Seeking Certainty: Bone Densitometry, The Internet and Healthcare Contexts; E.Green, F.Griffiths, F.Henwood & S.Wyatt Telemedicine, Telecare, and the Future Patient: Innovation, Risk And Governance; T.Finch, C.May, M.Mort & F.Mair Patient 'Expertise' and Innovative Health Technologies; K.Ward, M.Davis & P.Flowers Making Sense of Mediated Information: Empowerment and Dependency; J.Cullen & S.Cohn PART 3: INNOVATION, CONTEXT AND MEANING Time, Place and Settings: Negotiating Birth, Childhood and Death; J.Seymour, E.Ettorre, J.Heaton, G.Lankshear, D.Mason & J.Noyes Replacing Hips and Lenses: Surgery, Industry and Innovation in Post War Britain; J.S.Metcalfe & J.Pickstone Access, Agency and Normality: The Wheelchair and the Internet as Mediators of Disability; S.Parr, N.Watson & B.Woods PART 4: REGULATION AND EVALUATION OF IHTS Understanding the 'Productivity Crisis' in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Over-Regulation or Lack of Innovation?; P.Martin, J.Abraham, C.Davis & A.Kraft Regulating Hybridity: Policing Pollution in Tissue Engineering and Transpecies Transplantation; N.Brown, A.Faulkner, J.Kent & M.Michael Cultural Politics and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science; B.Salter Regulation and the Positioning of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; J.Chatwin & P.Tovey Evaluation as an Innovative Health Technology; D.Armstrong Blibliography Index
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'The book reviews innovative health technologies and associated everyday practices of health as expressions of social relationships...[it] draws a complex map of relationships that sketches the state of the literature on sociological studies on health and technology today [and] will be particularly appealing to academics with advanced knowledge of the field of sociology of health and illness.' - Sociology
