The sociology of medical science and technology
By: edited by Mary Ann Elston.
Contributors: Elston, Mary Ann.
Series: Sociology of health and illness monograph series
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oxford; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Social medicine.; Medical sciences -- Social aspects.; Medical technology -- Social aspects.
Other titles: Sociology of medical science & technology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one.  Science and clinical practice.  Medical pedigrees and the visual production of family disease in Canadian and Japanese genetic counselling practice / Yoshio Nukaga and Alberto Cambrosio.  Science versus care: physicians, nurses and the dilemma of clinical research / Mary-Rose Mueller.  Bodies of knowledge: lay and biomedical understandings of musculoskeletal disorders / Helen Busby, Gareth Williams and Anne Rogers; title: Part two. Constructing professional tools. The rhetoric of prediction and chance in the research to clone a disease gene / Paul Atkinson, Claire Batchelor and Evelyn Parsons. Vital comparisons: the social construction of mortality measurement / Mel Bartley, George Davey Smith and David Blane; title: Part three. Assessing and regulating medical technologies. The science and politics of medicines regulation / John Abraham. "Strange bedfellows" in the laboratory of the NHS?: an analysis of the new science of health technology assessment in the United Kingdom / Alex Faulkner.