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The sociology of medical science and technology
- Title
- The sociology of medical science and technology / edited by Mary Ann Elston.
- Publication
- [Oxford] : Blackwell, [1997].
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 98-2240 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Elston, Mary Ann.
- Description
- 214 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Sociology of health and illness monograph series
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Contents
- Part one. Science and clinical practice. Medical pedigrees and the visual production of family disease in Canadian and Japanese genetic counselling practice / Yoshio Nukaga and Alberto Cambrosio. Science versus care: physicians, nurses and the dilemma of clinical research / Mary-Rose Mueller. Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders / Helen Busby, Gareth Williams and Anne Rogers -- Part two. Constructing professional tools. The rhetoric of prediction and chance in the research to clone a disease gene / Paul Atkinson, Claire Batchelor and Evelyn Parsons. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement / Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane -- Part three. Assessing and regulating medical technologies. The science and politics of medicines regulation / John Abraham. "Strange bedfellows" in the laboratory of the NHS?: an analysis of the new science of health technology assessment in the United Kingdom / Alex Faulkner.
- Call Number
- JFE 98-2240
- ISBN
- 0631204474
- OCLC
- 38022712
- Title
- The sociology of medical science and technology / edited by Mary Ann Elston.
- Imprint
- [Oxford] : Blackwell, [1997].
- Series
- Sociology of health and illness monograph series
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographic references and index.
- Added Author
- Elston, Mary Ann.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-2240