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The sociology of medical science and technology / edited by Mary Ann Elston.

Contributor(s): Elston, Mary AnnMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Sociology of health and illness monographsPublication details: Oxford : Blackwell, 1997. ISBN: 0631204474Subject(s): Science -- Social aspects | Technology -- Social aspects | Social medicineDDC classification: 306.45
Contents:
Introduction: the Sociology of Medical Science and Technology / Mary Ann Elston -- 1. Medical pedigrees and the visual production of family disease in Canadian and Japanese genetic counselling practice / Yoshio Nukaga and Alberto Cambrosio -- 2. Science versus care: physicians, nurses and the dilemma of clinical research / Mary-Rose Mueller -- 3. Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders / Helen Busby, Gareth Williams and Anne Rogers -- 4. The rhetoric of prediction and chance in the research to clone a disease gene / Paul Atkinson, Claire Batchelor and Evelyn Parsons -- 5. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement / Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane -- 6. The science and politics of medicines regulation / John Abraham -- 7. 'Strange bedfellows' in the laboratory of the NHS? An analysis of the new science of health technology assessment in the United Kingdom / Alex Faulkner.
Summary: The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology contributes to the growing debate about the relationship between science and medicine by bringing together approaches from two areas of sociology; the sociology of medicine and the sociology of science and technology. Drawing on research in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Japan and North America, this book provides a fascinating perspective on many key aspects of modern medicine.
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Introduction: the Sociology of Medical Science and Technology / Mary Ann Elston -- 1. Medical pedigrees and the visual production of family disease in Canadian and Japanese genetic counselling practice / Yoshio Nukaga and Alberto Cambrosio -- 2. Science versus care: physicians, nurses and the dilemma of clinical research / Mary-Rose Mueller -- 3. Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders / Helen Busby, Gareth Williams and Anne Rogers -- 4. The rhetoric of prediction and chance in the research to clone a disease gene / Paul Atkinson, Claire Batchelor and Evelyn Parsons -- 5. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement / Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane -- 6. The science and politics of medicines regulation / John Abraham -- 7. 'Strange bedfellows' in the laboratory of the NHS? An analysis of the new science of health technology assessment in the United Kingdom / Alex Faulkner.

The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology contributes to the growing debate about the relationship between science and medicine by bringing together approaches from two areas of sociology; the sociology of medicine and the sociology of science and technology. Drawing on research in the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, Japan and North America, this book provides a fascinating perspective on many key aspects of modern medicine.

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