Tous les ebooks de la collection "Health, Technology and Society" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Reproductive Citizenship Rhonda M. Shaw This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of reproductive citizenship in relation to decision-making about a range of issues: from fertility preservation and the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-06-23 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Species of Contagion Ray Carr Species of Contagion examines the political and social implications of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species. Scientists are demonstrating a renewed interest in developing transplants for humans with tissues from pigs, with the aid of genetic engineering... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-02-17 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts Susanne Brucksch , Kaori Sasaki This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima;... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-06-19 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies De-Sequencing Dana Mahr , Martina Von Arx Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-12-07 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing Marie-Pierre Julien , Ingrid Voléry This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-12-05 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Resilient Cyborgs Nelly Oudshoorn This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-04-02 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Complementary and Alternative Medicine Caragh Brosnan , Caragh Brosnan , Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell , Pia Vuolanto This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments. Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-03-26 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Quantified Lives and Vital Data Conor Farrington , Rebecca Lynch This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-05 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Rethinking the Clinical Gaze John Gardner This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology. It addresses key questions, including:... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-05-31 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834 S. Webster Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-01-26 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Inquiring into Human Enhancement Sylvie Allouche , Jean Gayon , Jérôme Goffette , Michela Marzano Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-09-01 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia M. Sleeboom-Faulkner Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-04-25 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation J. Abraham , C. Davis This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health. It explains why pharmaceutical regulation has been misdirected by commercial interests... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-11-08 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Innovation and Biomedicine M. Michael , M. Rosengarten With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the complex, virtual and topological dimensions of the expectations, ethics and evidence that... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-09-24 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Global Dynamics of Regenerative Medicine A. Webster Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change medicine itself. This book provides the first detailed examination and critical assessment of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-03-25 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 94,94 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare N. Oudshoorn Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in telecare technologies: information and communication technologies that enable care at a... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-10-27 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Configuring Health Consumers R. Harris , N. Wathen , S. Wyatt This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing information technologies, and discuss their influence on emerging forms of health 'work'. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2010-10-27 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context E. Balka , E. Green , F. Henwood This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-10-09 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Global Politics of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science H. Gottweis , B. Salter , C. Waldby Drawing on a wide range of interviews and primary and secondary sources, this book investigates the dynamic interactions between national regulatory formation and the global biopolitics of regenerative medicine and human embryonic stem cell science. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2009-01-15 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Medical Technology into Healthcare and Society A. Faulkner From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2008-11-28 Collection : Health, Technology and Society PDF 52,74 €
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