Technology and Medical Practice: Blood, Guts and Machines / Edition 1

by Boel Berner, Ericka Johnson

Overview

The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? How is knowledge negotiated, or relations of power reconfigured? Technology and Medical Practice addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care. Combining science and technology studies with medical sociology, the history of medicine and feminist approaches to science, this book presents analyses of artefacts-in-use across a variety of settings within the UK, USA and Europe, and will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of science and technology alike.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780754678366
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/28/2010
Series:	Theory, Technology and Society
Edition description:	1
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Ericka Johnson in a postdoctoral researcher in the Division for Science and Technology Studies at University of Gothenburg, Sweden Boel Berner is a professor in the Department of Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: technology and medical practice: blood, guts and machines, Ericka Johnson and Boel Berner; Part 1 Judging Bodies: Defining the pubescent body: 3 cases of biomedicine's approach to 'pathology', Celia Roberts; Learning to produce, see and say the (ab)normal: professional vision in ultrasound scanning during pregnancy, Kerstin Sandell; Accounting for incoherent bodies, Dawn Goodwin and Maggie Mort. Part 2 Simulating Bodies: The anatomy of a surgical simulation: the mutual articulation of bodies in and through the machine, Rachel Prentice; Blonde birth machines: medical simulation, techno-corporeality and posthuman feminism, Jenny Sundén; Simulating medical patients and practices: bodies and the construction of valid medical simulators, Ericka Johnson. Part 3 Linking Bodies and Machines: Emotion work: abjection and electronic foetal monitoring, Petra Jonvallen; Incorporating machines into laboratory work: acting on concepts of humanness and machineness, Corinna Kruse; (Dis)connecting bodies: blood donation and technical change, Sweden 1915-1950, Boel Berner. Epilogue: Moving nature/culture, Lucy Suchman; Index

Editorial Reviews

’Though the sites of study are quite diverse, at its core, this edited volume cohesively develops important perspectives on the ways in which to study medicine as it is practiced with new technologies and as its practitioners negotiate their relationships with medical devices... Johnson and Berner’s edited volume is, overall, an insightful exploration of issues at the interface of medical practice and medical technologies and the relationship of the body to medical technology and medical technology to the body.’ Technology and Culture

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