Health, Technology and Society: A Sociological Critique

Author:   Andrew Webster
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition:   2007 ed.
ISBN:  

9781403995247


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 September 2007
Format:   Hardback
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Health, Technology and Society: A Sociological Critique


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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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Author:   Andrew Webster
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Edition:   2007 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.472kg
ISBN:  

9781403995247


ISBN 10:   1403995249
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   11 September 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

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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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.

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