Technology and Medical Practice

Blood, Guts and Machines

Boel Berner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

228 Seiten

2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-26038-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Ericka Johnson in a postdoctoral researcher in the Division for Science and Technology Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden Boel Berner is a professor in the Department of Technology and Social Change at LinkÃ¶ping University, Sweden.

Contents: Introduction: technology and medical practice: blood, guts and machines, Ericka Johnson and Boel Berner; Part 1 Judging Bodies: Defining the pubescent body: 3 cases of biomedicine's approach to 'pathology', Celia Roberts; Learning to produce, see and say the (ab)normal: professional vision in ultrasound scanning during pregnancy, Kerstin Sandell; Accounting for incoherent bodies, Dawn Goodwin and Maggie Mort. Part 2 Simulating Bodies: The anatomy of a surgical simulation: the mutual articulation of bodies in and through the machine, Rachel Prentice; Blonde birth machines: medical simulation, techno-corporeality and posthuman feminism, Jenny Sundén; Simulating medical patients and practices: bodies and the construction of valid medical simulators, Ericka Johnson. Part 3 Linking Bodies and Machines: Emotion work: abjection and electronic foetal monitoring, Petra Jonvallen; Incorporating machines into laboratory work: acting on concepts of humanness and machineness, Corinna Kruse; (Dis)connecting bodies: blood donation and technical change, Sweden 1915-1950, Boel Berner. Epilogue: Moving nature/culture, Lucy Suchman; Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.01.2017
Reihe/Serie	Theory, Technology and Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-26038-X / 113826038X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-26038-2 / 9781138260382
Zustand	Neuware