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OverviewExamines 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Andrew WebsterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Imprint: Red Globe Press Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.333kg ISBN: 9781403995254ISBN 10: 1403995257 Pages: 224 Publication Date: 11 September 2007 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Out of print, replaced by POD  We will order this item for you from a manufatured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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?ReviewsShortlisted for the BSA Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize. I believe Andrew Webster's Health, Technology and Society...has the potential to entice and enthuse readers into the challenging world of the sociology of medical science and technology...It offers readers not only an overview of significant changes in the relationship between health care and technology but also a conceptual vocabulary and perspective to understand those changes.' - Sociology of Health and Illness Author InformationANDREW 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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