Health, Technology and Society

A Sociological Critique

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Andrew Webster

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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.

Author Biography:

ANDREW WEBSTER is Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit and Head of Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK. He directed the ESRC/MRC Innovative Health Technologies Programme and now is national co-ordinator of the ESRC's Stem Cells initiative. He held an ANU Research Fellowship to Australia in 2006. He is the author of many books and articles. Recent publications include Contested Futures: Mobilising tomorrow's science and technology, Introductory Sociology (Palgrave), Science Technology & Society: New Directions (Palgrave), and New Medical Technol

Release date NZ

September 11th, 2007

Author

Andrew Webster

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

224 p.

Imprint

Red Globe Press

Pages

224

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Dimensions

156x234x13

ISBN-13

9781403995254

Product ID

1640471

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