Health, Technology and Society: A Sociological Critique

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 sep 2007

Examines a range of current innovative health technologies, exploring how far they change the boundaries between the body, health, technology relationship, and assessing the contribution a critical social science can make towards our understanding of this shift.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403995254
ISBN-10: 1403995257
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:2007
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Red Globe Press
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Uses recent and timely research from global examples

Notă biografică

ANDREW WEBSTER is Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit and Head of Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He directed the ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme and now is national co-ordinator of the ESRC's Stem Cells initiative. He held an ANU Research Fellowship to Australia in 2006. He is the author of many books and articles. Recent publications include Contested Futures: Mobilising tomorrow's science and technology, Introductory Sociology (Palgrave), Science Technology & Society: New Directions (Palgrave), and New Medical Technologies and Society: Reordering Life.

Cuprins

Introduction: Understanding Innovative Health Technologies The Dynamics of Biomedical Innovation Corporate Health, Markets and Regulation Body, Identity and the Meaning of Health Managing and Governing New Health Technologies The Contested Sick Role Conclusion: Novel Technologies, New Social Relations?

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