Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines (Theory, Technology and Society)

Berner, Boel

ISBN 10: 113826038X / ISBN 13: 9781138260382

Published by Routledge, 2016

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines (Theory, Technology and Society)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 113826038X
• ISBN 13: 9781138260382
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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 Linköping University, Sweden.