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Medical Technology and the Social
How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal
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2024
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Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal explores the intersection of society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts our day-to-day lives. The contributors examine a variety of technologies and their impact on the social world, from older technologies such as the use of fax machines in hospitals to cutting-edge technologies such as Bluetooth-enabled smart pills. Underlying each chapter is a consideration of what is “normal”, investigating such themes as power and social control, diffusion of technology, eco-crip theory, the changing role of medical expertise, the embodiment of the fetus in utero, the history of prosthetics, and how technology has reformed conceptions of a “normal” body.
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Copyright year
2024
ISBN-Print
978-1-66694-094-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-6669-4095-4
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
218
Product type
Edited Book
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Introduction No access Pages 1 - 6
Chapter 1 Deconstructing Adoption and Use of Medical Technology No access
Chapter 2 Infrastructural Embeddedness and the Persistence of Fax in Australian Healthcare Contexts No access
Chapter 3 The Fetal Scan Project No access
Chapter 4 The Alterlife of Disabled Fetal Imaginaries No access
Chapter 5 Menstrual Futures No access
Chapter 6 The Emporia of Aristotle No access
Chapter 7 Technologies of Repair No access
Chapter 8 Abilify MyCite and the Social Control of Digital Pills No access
