New Technologies in Health Care: Challenge, Change and Innovation by A. Webster

Description: New Technologies in Health Care by A. Webster The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers. Author Biography JOHN ABRAHAM Professor of Sociology and Co-director of Centre for Research in Health and Medicine (CRHaM) at the University of Sussex, UKDAVID ARMSTRONG Reader in Sociology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at Kings College School of Medicine, London, UKPAUL ATKINSON Professor of Sociology at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UKADITYA BHARADWAJ Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UKNIK BROWN Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UKJOHN CHATWIN Research Fellow at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UKANGUS CLARKE Professor in Clinical Genetics, Cardiff University, UK and directs the Cardiff MSc course in Genetic CounsellingDAVID CLARK Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UKSIMON COHN Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKJOSEPH CULLEN Principal Researcher and Consultant at The Tavistock Institute, London, UKCOURTNEY DAVIS Research Fellow in Sociology and the Centre for Research in Health and Medicine at the University of Sussex, UKMARK DAVIS Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, UEL, London, UKELIZABETH ETTORRE Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business, University of Plymouth, UKALEX FAULKNER Senior Research Associate at the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UKTRACY FINCH Senior Research Fellow in the Health Technologies and Human Relations research group at the Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR), University of Newcastle, UKPAUL FLOWERS Reader in the Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UKNICK FOX Reader in the Sociology of Health and the Body, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, UKSARAH FRANKLIN Professor in Sociology at BIOS, London School of Economics, UKEILEEN GREEN Professor of Sociology and Director of the centre for Social and Policy Research in the School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside, UKJOSEPHINE GREEN Professor of Psychosocial Reproductive Health and Deputy Director of the Mother and Infant Research Unit at the University of York, UKFRANCES GRIFFITHS Deputy Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick, UKGERARD HANLON Professor of Organization and Society at the Management Centre, University of Leicester, UKJANET HEATON Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, UKFLIS HENWOOD Reader in Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UKJENNY HEWISONProfessor of the Psychology of Health Care, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds, UKJULIE KENT Reader in Sociology in the School of Sociology, University of the West of England, Bristol, UKANNE KERR Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of York, UKGLORIA LANKSHEAR Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Health and Social Work, University of Plymouth, UKGILLIAN LEWANDO-HUNDT Professor of Social Sciences in Health and Co-Director of the Institute of Health, School of Health and Social Studies, University of Warwick, UKFRANCES MAIR Professor of Primary Care Research in the Division of Community Health Sciences, University of Glasgow Medical School, UKDAVID MASON Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social Sciences, Nottingham Trent University, UKPAUL MARTIN Deputy Director of IGBIS, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UKCARL MAY Professor of Medical Sociology and leads the Health Technologies and Human Relations research group at the Centre for Health Services Research, University of Newcastle, UKSTANLEY METCALFE Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy and Executive Director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition, University of Manchester, UKMIKE MICHAEL Professor of Sociology of Science and Technology at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UKMAGGIE MORT Senior Lecturer in the Institute for Health Research and Co-Director of the Centre for Science Studies, University of Lancaster, UKSARAH NETTLETON Senior Lecturer in Social Policy, in the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of York, UKJANE NOYES Lecturer at the School of Nursing, Midwifery and Social Work, University of Manchester, UKSUSIE PARR Research and Development Co-ordinator for Connect, the UK communication disability networkJOHN PICKSTONE Professor and Director of the CHSTM/Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester, UKLINDSAY PRIOR Professor of Sociology at the Queens University Belfast, Belfast, UKBRIAN SALTER Professor of Biopolitics in the Institute of Health at the University of East Anglia, UKJANE SANDALL Professor of Midwifery and Womens Health at Kings College, London, UK, and co-leads the Women and Family Health Research GroupJANE SEYMOUR Sue Ryder Professor of Palliative and End of Life Studies at the Sue Ryder Centre, School of Nursing, University of Nottingham, UKPHILIP TOVEY Reader in Health Sociology, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UKKATIE WARD Research Officer at ScHARR, University of Sheffield, UKNICK WATSON Professor of Disability Studies and Director of Strathclyde Centre for Disability Research, at the University of Glasgow, UKBRIAN WOODS Research Fellow at the Science and Technology Studies Unit, Department of Sociology at The University of York, UKMARK WORWOOD Professor in Haematology at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff, UKSALLY WYATT Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR) at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Table of Contents List of Tables LIst of Figures Acknowldgements Series Editors Preface List of Contributions New Technologies in Health Care: Opening the Black Bag: A.Webster PART 1: GENETIC RISK, REPRODUCTION AND IDENTITY The Genetic Iceberg: Risk and Uncertainty: A.Bharadwaj, L.Prior, P.Atkinson, A.Clarke & M.Worwood Navigating the Troubled Waters of Prenatal Testing Decisions: G.Lewando-Hundt, J.Green, J.Sandall & J.Hewison Genetic Ambivalence: Expertise, Uncertainty, and Communication in the Context of New Genetic Technologies: A.Kerr & S.Franklin PART 2: INFORMATION AND EMPOWERMENT Pathways to the Doctor in the Information Age: The Role of ICTS in Contemporary Lay Referral Systems; S.Nettleton & G.Hanlon Desperately Seeking Certainty: Bone Densitometry, The Internet and Healthcare Contexts; E.Green, F.Griffiths, F.Henwood & S.Wyatt Telemedicine, Telecare, and the Future Patient: Innovation, Risk And Governance; T.Finch, C.May, M.Mort & F.Mair Patient Expertise and Innovative Health Technologies; K.Ward, M.Davis & P.Flowers Making Sense of Mediated Information: Empowerment and Dependency; J.Cullen & S.Cohn PART 3: INNOVATION, CONTEXT AND MEANING Time, Place and Settings: Negotiating Birth, Childhood and Death; J.Seymour, E.Ettorre, J.Heaton, G.Lankshear, D.Mason & J.Noyes Replacing Hips and Lenses: Surgery, Industry and Innovation in Post War Britain; J.S.Metcalfe & J.Pickstone Access, Agency and Normality: The Wheelchair and the Internet as Mediators of Disability; S.Parr, N.Watson & B.Woods PART 4: REGULATION AND EVALUATION OF IHTS Understanding the Productivity Crisis in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Over-Regulation or Lack of Innovation?; P.Martin, J.Abraham, C.Davis & A.Kraft Regulating Hybridity: Policing Pollution in Tissue Engineering and Transpecies Transplantation; N.Brown, A.Faulkner, J.Kent & M.Michael Cultural Politics and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science; B.Salter Regulation and the Positioning of Complementary and Alternative Medicine; J.Chatwin & P.Tovey Evaluation as an Innovative Health Technology; D.Armstrong Blibliography Index Review The book reviews innovative health technologies and associated everyday practices of health as expressions of social relationships...[it] draws a complex map of relationships that sketches the state of the literature on sociological studies on health and technology today [and] will be particularly appealing to academics with advanced knowledge of the field of sociology of health and illness. - Sociology Promotional Springer Book Archives Long Description The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers. Review Quote The book reviews innovative health technologies and associated everyday practices of health as expressions of social relationships...[it] draws a complex map of relationships that sketches the state of the literature on sociological studies on health and technology today [and] will be particularly appealing to academics with advanced knowledge of the field of sociology of health and illness. - Sociology Details ISBN1349542725 Language English ISBN-10 1349542725 ISBN-13 9781349542727 Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Short Title NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH CAR Media Book DEWEY 610.28 Year 2006 Publication Date 2006-01-01 Edition 1st Imprint Palgrave Macmillan Subtitle Challenge, Change and Innovation Place of Publication Basingstoke Country of Publication United Kingdom Edited by A. Webster Pages 275 UK Release Date 2006-01-01 AU Release Date 2006-01-01 NZ Release Date 2006-01-01 Illustrations XIV, 275 p. Author A. Webster Edition Description 1st ed. 2006 Series Health, Technology and Society Alternative 9781403991300 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135366011;

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