
Sociology of Medical Screening : Critical Perspectives, New Directions.
Title:
Sociology of Medical Screening : Critical Perspectives, New Directions.
Author:
Armstrong, Natalie.
ISBN:
9781118234389
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (164 pages)
Series:
Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
Contents:
The Sociology of Medical Screening -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future -- 2: Screening: mapping medicine's temporal spaces -- 3: The experience of risk as 'measured vulnerability': health screening and lay uses of numerical risk -- 4: Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic -- 5: Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK -- 6: A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA -- 7: Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany -- 8: 'Let's have it tested f irst': choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong -- 9: Representing and intervening: 'doing' good care in f irst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making -- 10: 'Wakey wakey baby': narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans -- Index.
Abstract:
Natalie Armstrong is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. A medical sociologist, Dr. Armstrong has previously held research posts at the University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Helen Eborall is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester, having previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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