Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
Subtitle: Intersections of Inquiry (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Contributors: Margaret Lock (Editor); Allan Young (Editor); Alberto Cambrosio (Editor)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521652100
Subjects: Medical equipment & techniques; Social & cultural anthropology; Social aspects; Family & General Practice; Biomedical Engineering; Sociology Of Medicine; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Medical technology; Medical anthropology; Anthropology - General; Medical technology--Social aspects; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Anthropology; Medical innovations
First sentence: In this short chapter, I examine what I perceive as the historical relation between molecular biology, gene technology and medicine, and I touch on some aspects of its consequences in the context of the human genome project.