| Medical Technologies and the Life World: The Social Construction of Normality Contributor(s): Lauritzen, Sonia Olin (Editor), Hyden, Lars-Christer (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415364345 ISBN-13: 9780415364348 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $35.10 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 2006 Annotation: Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people's lives and understandings of health and illness. This book explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well-being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the "natural" body. Focusing on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about normalcy, the body and identity, New Health Technologies explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients how the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings how these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create "new illness." Written by authors with differing backgrounds in phenomenology, social psychology, social anthropology, communication studies and the nursing sciences, this book is essential reading for students andacademics of medical sociology, health and allied studies, and anyone with an interest in new health technologies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Ethics - Medical | Reference - Medical | Allied Health Services - Medical Technology |
| Dewey: 610.28 |
| LCCN: 2006017546 |
| Series: Critical Studies in Health and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.45" H x 6.22" W x 9.26" (0.68 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people's lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking book explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well-being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body. Focusing on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about normalcy, the body and identity, Medical Technologies and the Life World explores:
Written by authors with differing backgrounds in phenomenology, social psychology, social anthropology, communication studies and the nursing sciences, this sensational text is essential reading for students and academics of medical sociology, health and allied studies, and anyone with an interest in new health technologies. |