| Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines Contributor(s): Berner, Boel (Author), Johnson, Ericka (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0754678369 ISBN-13: 9780754678366 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Medical | Family & General Practice - Social Science | Social Work |
| Dewey: 610.28 |
| LCCN: 2009033015 |
| Series: Theory, Technology and Society |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.10 lbs) 228 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? How is knowledge negotiated, or relations of power reconfigured? Technology and Medical Practice addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care. Combining science and technology studies with medical sociology, the history of medicine and feminist approaches to science, this book presents analyses of artefacts-in-use across a variety of settings within the UK, USA and Europe, and will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of science and technology alike. |
