Living and working with the new medical technologies : intersections of inquiry

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Living and working with the new medical technologies : intersections of inquiry

Title remainder

intersections of inquiry

Statement of responsibility

edited by Margaret Lock, Alan [sic] Young, Alberto Cambrosio

Title variation

Living & Working with the New Medical Technologies

Contributor

• Cambrosio, Alberto, 1950-
• Young, Allan, 1938-
• Lock, Margaret M.

Editor

• Cambrosio, Alberto, 1950-
• Young, Allan, 1938-
• Lock, Margaret M.

Subject

• Medical technology -- Social aspects
• Medical anthropology
• Medical innovations -- Social aspects

Language

eng

Summary

This stimulating collection of essays is the product of face-to-face dialogues among anthropologists, sociologists, and philosopher-historians, all of whom focus their attention on the newly created biomedical technologies and their application in practice. Drawing on ethnographic and historical case studies, the authors show how biomedical technologies are produced through the agencies of tools and techniques, scientists and doctors, funding bodies, patients, clients, and the public. Despite shared concerns, these essays reveal that the authors have achieved no consensus about the objectives of their research, and the deep epistemological divides clearly remain - making for provocative reading.--

Member of

• Cambridge studies in medical anthropology, 8

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Provided by publisher

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge studies in medical anthropology
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks

Series volume

8