Boel Berner

Technology and Medical Practice

Blood, Guts and Machines
Herausgeber: Johnson, Ericka

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780754678366
• ISBN-10: 0754678369
• Artikelnr.: 35023699

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: technology and medical practice: blood, guts and
machines, Ericka Johnson and Boel Berner; Part 1 Judging Bodies: Defining
the pubescent body: 3 cases of biomedicine's approach to 'pathology', Celia
Roberts; Learning to produce, see and say the (ab)normal: professional
vision in ultrasound scanning during pregnancy, Kerstin Sandell; Accounting
for incoherent bodies, Dawn Goodwin and Maggie Mort. Part 2 Simulating
Bodies: The anatomy of a surgical simulation: the mutual articulation of
bodies in and through the machine, Rachel Prentice; Blonde birth machines:
medical simulation, techno-corporeality and posthuman feminism, Jenny
Sundén; Simulating medical patients and practices: bodies and the
construction of valid medical simulators, Ericka Johnson. Part 3 Linking
Bodies and Machines: Emotion work: abjection and electronic foetal
monitoring, Petra Jonvallen; Incorporating machines into laboratory work:
acting on concepts of humanness and machineness, Corinna Kruse;
(Dis)connecting bodies: blood donation and technical change, Sweden
1915-1950, Boel Berner. Epilogue: Moving nature/culture, Lucy Suchman;
Index