Boel Berner

Technology and Medical Practice

Blood, Guts and Machines

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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… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Johnson, Ericka (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-317-04639-4
EAN: 9781317046394
Produktnummer: 20173236
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 8'154 KB

Über den Autor

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.