What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? This book addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care. Editor(s): Johnson, Ericka. Series Editor(s): Abbinnett, Dr. Ross. Series: Theory, Technology and Society. Num Pages: 228 pages, includes 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 14. Weight in Grams: 566. . 2010. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines (Theory, Technology and Society)
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0754678369
ISBN 13: 9780754678366
Binding: Hardcover
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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.

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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.

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