Health, Technology and Society – serie
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66 produkter
Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Av N. Oudshoorn
Inbunden, 2011
568 kr
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Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare …
Medical Technology into Healthcare and Society
A Sociology of Devices, Innovation and Governance
Av A. Faulkner
Inbunden, 2008
551 kr
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From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in …
Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science
Regenerative Medicine in Transition
Av H. Gottweis, B. Salter m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
568 kr
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Drawing on a wide range of interviews and primary and secondary sources, this book investigates the dynamic interactions between national regulatory formation and the global biopolitics of regenerative medicine and human embryonic stem cell science.
Genetics from Laboratory to Society
Societal Learning as an Alternative to Regulation
Av K. Horstman
Inbunden, 2007
551 kr
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Based on detailed studies of the actual use of genetic testing in context, this book looks at the ethical and political questions raised by the expanding role of genetic information in society. In contrast to the established perspective which focuses on individual freedom, the authors emphasize a …
Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation
Innovation, Politics and Promissory Science
Av C. Davis, J. Abraham
Inbunden, 2013
1008 kr
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This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health. It explains why pharmaceutical regulation has been misdirected by commercial interests and misconceived ideologies.
Mediating Health Information
The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape
Inbunden, 2008
568 kr
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Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines the ways in which ordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of …
Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context
Inbunden, 2009
551 kr
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This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, …
Uncertainty in Medical Innovation
Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care
Inbunden, 2008
1128 kr
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The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a site where hi-tech medicine and vulnerable human beings come into close contact. Focusing on a number of medical and ethical challenges encountered by staff and parents, this book provides a new perspective on the complexity of these treatments and the …
Configuring Health Consumers
Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
Av R. Harris, N. Wathen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
568 kr
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This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia
Assemblages of Life
Inbunden, 2014
568 kr
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Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
Innovation and Biomedicine
Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV
Inbunden, 2013
568 kr
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With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that surround the innovation of PrEP.
Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834
'What is Life?'
Av S. Webster
Inbunden, 2009
634 kr
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Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human Body/Soul relations, both in life and …
Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine
A Social Science Critique
Av A. Webster
Inbunden, 2013
1128 kr
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Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This book provides the first detailed examination and critical assessment of the field to be made by social …
Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope
Av Alan Petersen, Megan Munsie m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1016 kr
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This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments that are clinically unproven and yet available in clinics and hospitals around the world. The authors offer a …
Inquiring into Human Enhancement
Interdisciplinary and International Perspectives
Av Sylvie Allouche, Jean Gayon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means and understanding what …
Organizing Patient Safety
Failsafe Fantasies and Pragmatic Practices
Inbunden, 2017
986 kr
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This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety programme introduces new problems and safety …
Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease
Innovating with Care
Av Marianne Boenink, Harro van Lente m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1128 kr
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This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social and ethical issues raised by promises of early diagnostics and asks under which conditions emerging diagnostic …
Inquiring into Animal Enhancement
Model or Countermodel of Human Enhancement?
Av Simone Bateman, Sylvie Allouche m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons that can be learned about enhancement practices, as they concern both animals and humans.
Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Av N. Oudshoorn
Häftad, 2011
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare …
Medical Technology into Healthcare and Society
A Sociology of Devices, Innovation and Governance
Av A. Faulkner
Häftad, 2009
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in …
Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation
Innovation, Politics and Promissory Science
Av C. Davis, J. Abraham
Häftad, 2013
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health. It explains why pharmaceutical regulation has been misdirected by commercial interests and misconceived ideologies.
Mediating Health Information
The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape
Häftad, 2008
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines the ways in which ordinary people locate and digest the amount of health information available today, focusing on the unexplored 'middle' place of …
Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context
Häftad, 2009
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, …
Uncertainty in Medical Innovation
Experienced Pioneers in Neonatal Care
Häftad, 2008
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit is a site where hi-tech medicine and vulnerable human beings come into close contact. Focusing on a number of medical and ethical challenges encountered by staff and parents, this book provides a new perspective on the complexity of these treatments and the …
Configuring Health Consumers
Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility
Av R. Harris, N. Wathen m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'.
Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia
Assemblages of Life
Häftad, 2014
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived.
Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare
Av N. Oudshoorn
Häftad, 2011
608 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a distance. What happens when healthcare …
Innovation and Biomedicine
Ethics, Evidence and Expectation in HIV
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
Lägg i varukorg
With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that surround the innovation of PrEP.
Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine
A Social Science Critique
Av A. Webster
Häftad, 2013
1128 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This book provides the first detailed examination and critical assessment of the field to be made by social …
New Technologies in Health Care
Challenge, Change and Innovation
Av A. Webster
Häftad, 2006
1240 kr
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The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging …
