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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 contributions Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick Represents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening Content: Chapter 1 The Sociology of Medical Screening: Past, Present and Future (pages 1–16): Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall Chapter 2 Screening: Mapping Medicine's Temporal Spaces (pages 17–32): David Armstrong Chapter 3 The Experience of Risk as ‘Measured Vulnerability’: Health Screening and Lay Uses of Numerical Risk (pages 33–46): Chris Gillespie Chapter 4 Expanded Newborn Screening: Articulating the Ontology of Diseases with Bridging Work in the Clinic (pages 47–59): Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder Chapter 5 Resisting the Screening Imperative: Patienthood, Populations and Politics in Prostate Cancer Detection Technologies for the UK (pages 60–72): Alex Faulkner Chapter 6 A Molecu

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Author

Armstrong, Natalie (editor);Eborall, Helen (editor)

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9786613686022

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Sociology, Social Science