Medical Technology and the Social - How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions,

This book explores the intersection between society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts day-to-day life.

List of contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Kathryn Burrows

Part I: Technology Adoption, Diffusion, and Obduracy

1. Deconstructing Adoption and Use of Medical Technology: The Case of Two Imaging Technologies in India
Ankita Mukherjee and India Chakravarthi

2. Infrastructural Embeddedness and the Persistence of Fax in Australian Healthcare Contexts
Rowan Wilken and Jenny Kennedy

Part II: Envisioning the Body through Technology

3. The Fetal Scan Project
Anna Gonzalez Suero

4. The Alterlife of Disabled Fetal Imaginaries: Understanding Irradiation and Disability after New Reproductive Technologies
Misria Shaik Ali

5. Menstrual Futures: Medical Technologies' Impact on Beliefs about "Normal" Bleeding
Amber Nicole Brooks

6. The Emporia of Aristotle: What Prosthetics Taught Us About the Human Body
Alan Hawk

Part III: Pharmaceutical interventions to the Social World

7. Technologies of Repair: Naloxone, Opioid Overdose Prevention, and the Social in the U.S. Southwest
Danielle Kabella

8 Abilify MyCite and the Social Control of Digital Pills
Kathryn Burrows

About the Contributors

About the author

Kathryn Burrows is assistant professor of sociology at Madonna University and an independent scholar.Kathryn Burrows is assistant professor of sociology at Madonna University and an independent scholar.

Product details

• Authors: Kathryn Burrows
• Assisted by: Kathryn Burrows (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2024
• EAN: 9781666940947
• ISBN: 978-1-66694-094-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, MEDICAL / Instruments & Supplies, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Medical equipment & techniques, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Medical equipment and techniques