Lars-Christer Hyden

Medical Technologies and the Life World

The social construction of normality
Herausgeber: Lauritzen, Sonia Olin; Hyden, Lars-Christer

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Produktbeschreibung

What is the impact of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine on people's lives? This ground-breaking text explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 162mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 440g
• ISBN-13: 9780415364331
• ISBN-10: 0415364337
• Artikelnr.: 22087681

Autorenporträt

Sonia Olin Lauritzen, Lars-Christer Hyden

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Medical technologies, the lifeworld and normality: An
introduction Sonja Olin Lauritzen & Lars-Christer Hydén Chapter 2 Learning
to talk and talking about talk: Professional identity and communicative
technology Lars-Christer Hydén & Antje Lumma Chapter 3 What's in a Pap
smear? Biology, culture, technology and self in the cytology laboratory
Anette Forss Chapter 4 Gyneacologists and geneticists as storytellers:
Disease, choice and normality as the fabric of narratives on
pre-implantation genetic diagnosis Kristin Zeiler Chapter 5 The normal
baby-to-be: Lay and professional negotiations of the ultrasound image
Ann-Cristine Jonsson Chapter 6 A normal pregnancy? Women's experiences of
being at high risk after ultrasound screening for Down syndrome Sonja Olin
Lauritzen, Susanne Georgsson Öhman & Sissel Saltvedt Chapter 7 Imaging
technology and the detection of 'cold aneurysms': Illness narratives on the
Internet Gunilla Tegern Chapter 8 Phenomenology listens to Prozac:
Analyzing the SSRI revolution Fredrik Svenaeus