Living and working with the new medical technologies: intersections of inquiry

This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, all of whom focus their attention on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical cas...

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Weitere Verfasser: Lock, Margaret M. 1936- (HerausgeberIn), Young, Allan 1938- (HerausgeberIn), Cambrosio, Alberto 1950- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2000
Schriftenreihe:Cambridge studies in medical anthropology 8
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Zusammenfassung:This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, all of whom focus their attention on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, these essays reveal that the authors have achieved no consensus about the objectives of their research, and the deep epistemological divides clearly remain - making for provocative reading
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Beschreibung:1 online resource (ix, 295 pages)
ISBN:9780511621765
DOI:10.1017/CBO9780511621765

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