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Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal

Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal

Burrows, Kathryn
Ali, Misria Shaik
Burrows, Kathryn

Hardcover

Medical Reference

ISBN10: 1666940941
ISBN13: 9781666940947
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Feb 2 2024
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.04
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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