The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) - Hardcover

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Kim, Kiheung

 
9780415360517: The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)
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ISBN 10: 041536051X ISBN 13: 9780415360517
Publisher: Routledge, 2006

Synopsis

A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE).

Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and biomedicine, the text then focuses on the relations between scientific practice and wider social transformations, before finally building upon the sociologically informed methodological framework.

Incisive and thought-provoking, The Social Construction of Disease provides a valuable contribution to that well-established tradition of social history of science, which refers primarily to the theoretical works of the sociology of scientific knowledge.

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Kiheung Kim

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2006
Language
English
ISBN 10 
041536051X
ISBN 13 
9780415360517
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
272

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