Medical Technology And The Social
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Author |
: Kathryn Burrows |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 2024-01-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781666940954 |
ISBN-13 |
: 166694095X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medical Technology and the Social by : Kathryn Burrows
Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal explores the intersection of society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts our day-to-day lives. The contributors examine a variety of technologies and their impact on the social world, from older technologies such as the use of fax machines in hospitals to cutting-edge technologies such as Bluetooth-enabled smart pills. Underlying each chapter is a consideration of what is “normal”, investigating such themes as power and social control, diffusion of technology, eco-crip theory, the changing role of medical expertise, the embodiment of the fetus in utero, the history of prosthetics, and how technology has reformed conceptions of a “normal” body.
Author |
: Sonia Olin Lauritzen |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2007-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134219971 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134219970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medical Technologies and the Life World by : Sonia Olin Lauritzen
Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people’s lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking book explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well-being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body. Focusing on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about normalcy, the body and identity, Medical Technologies and the Life World explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients how the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings how these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create ‘new illness’. Written by authors with differing backgrounds in phenomenology, social psychology, social anthropology, communication studies and the nursing sciences, this sensational text is essential reading for students and academics of medical sociology, health and allied studies, and anyone with an interest in new health technologies.
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 225 |
Release |
: 1991-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309044912 |
ISBN-13 |
: 030904491X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Changing Economics of Medical Technology by : Institute of Medicine
Americans praise medical technology for saving lives and improving health. Yet, new technology is often cited as a key factor in skyrocketing medical costs. This volume, second in the Medical Innovation at the Crossroads series, examines how economic incentives for innovation are changing and what that means for the future of health care. Up-to-date with a wide variety of examples and case studies, this book explores how payment, patent, and regulatory policiesâ€"as well as the involvement of numerous government agenciesâ€"affect the introduction and use of new pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures. The volume also includes detailed comparisons of policies and patterns of technological innovation in Western Europe and Japan. This fact-filled and practical book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, health administrators, health care practitioners, and the concerned public.
Author |
: Rebecca Lynch |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 310 |
Release |
: 2017-10-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349952359 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349952354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Quantified Lives and Vital Data by : Rebecca Lynch
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 through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health, science and technology and social science.
Author |
: A. Faulkner |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2008-11-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230228368 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230228364 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Medical Technology into Healthcare and Society by : A. Faulkner
From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in innovating the technologies that shape health care.
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 1988-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309038478 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309038472 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis New Medical Devices by : Institute of Medicine
In the past 50 years the development of a wide range of medical devices has improved the quality of people's lives and revolutionized the prevention and treatment of disease, but it also has contributed to the high cost of health care. Issues that shape the invention of new medical devices and affect their introduction and use are explored in this volume. The authors examine the role of federal support, the decision-making process behind private funding, the need for reforms in regulation and product liability, the effects of the medical payment system, and other critical topics relevant to the development of new devices.
Author |
: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 111 |
Release |
: 2016-11-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309442589 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309442583 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Neuroscience Trials of the Future by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
On March 3-4, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Forum on Neuroscience and Nervous System Disorders held a workshop in Washington, DC, bringing together key stakeholders to discuss opportunities for improving the integrity, efficiency, and validity of clinical trials for nervous system disorders. Participants in the workshop represented a range of diverse perspectives, including individuals not normally associated with traditional clinical trials. The purpose of this workshop was to generate discussion about not only what is feasible now, but what may be possible with the implementation of cutting-edge technologies in the future.
Author |
: M. Lock |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400927254 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400927258 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Biomedicine Examined by : M. Lock
The culture of contemporary medicine is the object of investigation in this book; the meanings and values implicit in biomedical knowledge and practice and the social processes through which they are produced are examined through the use of specific case studies. The essays provide examples of how various facets of 20th century medicine, including edu cation, research, the creation of medical knowledge, the development and application of technology, and day to day medical practice, are per vaded by a value system characteristic of an industrial-capitalistic view of the world in which the idea that science represents an objective and value free body of knowledge is dominant. The authors of the essays are sociologists and anthropologists (in almost equal numbers); also included are papers by a social historian and by three physicians all of whom have steeped themselves in the social sci ences and humanities. This co-operative endeavor, which has necessi tated the breaking down of disciplinary barriers to some extent, is per haps indicative of a larger movement in the social sciences, one in which there is a searching for a middle ground between grand theory and attempts at universal explanations on the one hand, and the context-spe cific empiricism and relativistic accounts characteristic of many historical and anthropological analyses on the other.
Author |
: Institute of Medicine |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 1990-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309042864 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309042860 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation by : Institute of Medicine
The very rapid pace of advances in biomedical research promises us a wide range of new drugs, medical devices, and clinical procedures. The extent to which these discoveries will benefit the public, however, depends in large part on the methods we choose for developing and testing them. Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation focuses on strategies for clinical evaluation and their role in uncovering the actual benefits and risks of medical innovation. Essays explore differences in our current systems for evaluating drugs, medical devices, and clinical procedures; health insurance databases as a tool for assessing treatment outcomes; the role of the medical profession, the Food and Drug Administration, and industry in stimulating the use of evaluative methods; and more. This book will be of special interest to policymakers, regulators, executives in the medical industry, clinical researchers, and physicians.
Author |
: Andrew Webster |
Publisher |
: Red Globe Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2007-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1403995257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781403995254 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Health, Technology and Society by : Andrew Webster
Examines a range of current innovative health technologies, exploring how far they change the boundaries between the body, health, technology relationship, and assessing the contribution a critical social science can make towards our understanding of this shift.