Book Details
Orange Code:28048
Paperback:160 pages
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Sections:
1. The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future2. Screening: mapping medicine’s temporal spaces3. The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability’: health screening and lay uses of numerical risk4. Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic5. Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK6. A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA7. Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and German8. ‘Let’s have it tested fi rst’: choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong9. Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in fi rst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making10. ‘Wakey wakey baby’: narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans
Description:
The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, NewDirections presents a series of readings that provide anup-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating topopulation-based medical screening. * Features new research data in most of the contributions * Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as DavidArmstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick * Represents one of the only collections to specifically addressthe sociology of medical screening
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