Tous les livres numériques de la collection Health, Technology and Society

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Claudia Egher Digital Healthcare and Expertise This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from STS, medical sociology and media studies. It addresses topical questions, including: How do different stakeholders engage... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-12-02 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub Gratuit PDF ePub Télécharger Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Rhonda M. Shaw Reproductive Citizenship This book addresses responses to the predicament of medical and social infertility. It draws on international research to examine the dimensions of reproductive citizenship in relation to decision-making about a range of issues: from fertility preservation and the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-06-23 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ray Carr Species of Contagion Species of Contagion examines the political and social implications of xenotransplantation for bodies, nations, and species. Scientists are demonstrating a renewed interest in developing transplants for humans with tissues from pigs, with the aid of genetic engineering... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-02-17 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Susanne Brucksch , Kaori Sasaki Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima;... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2021-06-19 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Dana Mahr , Martina Von Arx De-Sequencing Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become meaningful. It is generally assumed that the genomic sequence adds up to the identity-forming... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-12-07 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Srecko Gajovic , Anna Lydia Svalastog , Andrew Webster Navigating Digital Health Landscapes Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a landscape and the ways in which people navigate this digital world, including the complex... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-12-07 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Marie-Pierre Julien , Ingrid Voléry From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring various cases, it proposes a new approach of measurement from an epistemological point of... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-12-05 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Andrew Webster , Sally Wyatt Health, Technology and Society This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time. As a collection of readings drawn from twenty-two books,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-07-06 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Nelly Oudshoorn Resilient Cyborgs This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal devices are often portrayed as almost magical technologies. Once implanted in bodies, they do not... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-04-02 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Ingunn Moser , Bernike Pasveer , Oddgeir Synnes Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in ‘homely’ institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a verb: it is something people do. Home is thus always in the making, temporal, contested,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2020-01-21 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 126,59 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Caragh Brosnan , Caragh Brosnan , Jenny-Ann Brodin Danell , Pia Vuolanto Complementary and Alternative Medicine This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social developments. Shifting the sociological focus away from CAM as a stable entity that elicits... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-03-26 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Kirstine Zinck Pedersen Organizing Patient Safety This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe system-design, risk elimination, and human fallibility, the patient safety programme... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-30 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 68,56 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Conor Farrington , Rebecca Lynch Quantified Lives and Vital Data This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-10-05 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
John Gardner Rethinking the Clinical Gaze This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology. It addresses key questions, including:... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-05-31 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Collectif Stem Cell Tourism and the Political Economy of Hope This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments that are clinically unproven and yet available in clinics and hospitals around the world.... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2017-01-12 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 68,56 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Marianne Boenink , Ellen Moors , Harro Van Lente Emerging Technologies for Diagnosing Alzheimer's Disease This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social and ethical issues raised by promises of early diagnostics and asks under which conditions... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-09-13 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
S. Webster Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834 Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorations, philosophical convictions, theological beliefs, and states of health exerted upon his perceptions of human... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-01-26 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
Sylvie Allouche , Jean Gayon , Jérôme Goffette , Michela Marzano Inquiring into Human Enhancement Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities of these debates, and to proposing novel ways of exploring what human enhancement means... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-09-01 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
M. Sleeboom-Faulkner Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the global harmonization of bioethical standards is contrived. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-04-25 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF 52,74 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
J. Abraham , C. Davis Unhealthy Pharmaceutical Regulation This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public health. It explains why pharmaceutical regulation has been misdirected by commercial interests... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-11-08 Collection : Health, Technology and Society Format(s) : PDF 94,94 € J'achète Téléchargement immédiat Dès validation de votre commande
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