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The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) by Ki-Heung Kim is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine) about?
A historical exploration of scientific disputes on the causation of so-called ‘prion diseases’, this fascinating book covers diseases including Scrapie, Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE). Firstly tracing the twentieth-century history of disease research and biomedicine, the text then focuses on the relations between scientific practice and wider social transformations, before finally building upon the sociologically informed methodological framework. Incisive and thought-provoking, The Social Construction of Disease provides a valuable contribution to that well-established tradition of social history of science, which refers primarily to the theoretical works of the sociology of scientific knowledge.
Who reads The Social Construction of Disease: From Scrapie to Prion (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ki-Heung Kim
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781280651892
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Sociology, Medical
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