De-Sequencing

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• 1. Introduction.- Part I Science and Medicine.- 2. Personalised Medicine: Problems of translation into the human domain.- 3. Contemporary Future Paren... Lees meer

Organizing Patient Safety

Kirstine Zinck Pedersen

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on pres... Lees meer

Health Without Bodies

Kim Hendrickx

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• Health Without Bodies invites readers on an ethnographic exploration of the boundary between food and medicine. Food-related health claims are governe... Lees meer

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) - as knowledge, philosophy and practice - is constituted by, and transformed throu... Lees meer

Organizing Patient Safety

Kirstine Zinck Pedersen

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on pres... Lees meer

Telecare Technologies and the Transformation of Healthcare

N Oudshoorn

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in he... Lees meer

Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• 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. Lees meer

From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the W... Lees meer

Quantified Lives and Vital Data

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological ... Lees meer

Health, Technology and Society

• Paperback | Engels | 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 200... Lees meer

Health, Technology and Society

• Hardcover | Engels | 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 200... Lees meer

From Measuring Rods to DNA Sequencing

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the W... Lees meer

Rethinking the Clinical Gaze

John Gardner

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes... Lees meer

Inquiring Into Animal Enhancement

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual iss... Lees meer

Rethinking the Clinical Gaze

John Gardner

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes... Lees meer

Global Morality and Life Science Practices in Asia

M Sleeboom-Faulkner

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global morali... Lees meer

Ways of Home Making in Care for Later Life

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• 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. Lees meer

Configuring Health Consumers

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they ... Lees meer

Digital Healthcare and Expertise

Claudia Egher

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• This open access book explores how expertise about bipolar disorder is performed on American and French digital platforms by combining insights from S... Lees meer

Body and Soul in Coleridge's Notebooks, 1827-1834

S Webster

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• Through an examination of his later personal notebooks, this study explores the reciprocal effects that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's scientific explorati... Lees meer

Mediating Health Information

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• Welcome or not, most citizens in Western countries are unable to go through a day without receiving a dose of health information. This book examines t... Lees meer

Inquiring Into Human Enhancement

Sylvie Allouche, Jean Gayon, Michela Marzano, Jérôme Goffette

• Hardcover | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifyi... Lees meer

Resilient Cyborgs

Nelly Oudshoorn

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• In this unique and timely book, Nelly Oudshoorn argues that any discourse or policy assuming a passive role for people living with these implants sile... Lees meer

Innovation and Biomedicine

M Michael, M Rosengarten

• Paperback | Engels | Health, Technology and Society
• With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops ... Lees meer