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The sociology of medical screening : critical perspectives, new directions / edited by Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Sociology of health and illness monograph series.
- Sociology of health & illness
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Medical screening.
- Multiphasic health screening.
- Human chromosome abnormalities--Diagnosis.
- Human chromosome abnormalities.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (164 pages)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. : Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening.Features new research data in most of the contributionsIncludes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison PilnickRepresents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- "Originally published as v. 34, issue 2 of The sociology of health & illness"--t.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613686022
- 9781118234372
- 1118234375
- 9781280775635
- 1280775637
- 9781118234365
- 1118234367
- 9781118234358
- 1118234359
- 9781118234389
- 1118234383
- OCLC:
- 796384378
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