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The medicalization of cyberspace / Andy Miah and Emma Rich.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miah, Andy, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical telematics.
- Medical informatics.
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 160 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Contents:
- Medicalization in cyberspace
- The cybeborg body
- Cybermedicine and reliability discourse
- Virtual governance of health behaviour
- Cyberpatients, illness narratives and medicalization
- Partial prostitution
- Biological property rights in cyberspace
- The online pro-ana movement
- The bioethics of cybermedicalization
- Conclusion: after-cyborgs or artificial life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [127]-157) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Fink Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415393645
- 0415393647
- 9780415376228
- 041537622X
- 9780203931134
- 0203931130
- OCLC:
- 166317500
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