Armstrong / Eborall The Sociology of Medical Screening

Critical Perspectives, New Directions
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-118-23437-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 168 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, NewDirections presents a series of readings that provide anup-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating topopulation-based medical screening.
* Features new research data in most of the contributions
* Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as DavidArmstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick
* Represents one of the only collections to specifically addressthe sociology of medical screening

Autoren/Hrsg.

Armstrong, Natalie

Eborall, Helen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors vii
1 The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future1
Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall
2 Screening: mapping medicine's temporal spaces 17
David Armstrong
3 The experience of risk as 'measuredvulnerability': health screening and lay uses of numericalrisk 33
Chris Gillespie
4 Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology ofdiseases with bridging work in the clinic 47
Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder
5 Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populationsand politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK60
Alex Faulkner
6 A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and themolecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA 73
Stuart Hogarth, Michael M. Hopkins and Victor Rodriguez
7 Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrantsfor tuberculosis in France and Germany 90
Janina Kehr
8 'Let's have it tested first': choice andcircumstances in decision-making following positive antenatalscreening in Hong Kong 105
Alison Pilnick and Olga Zayts
9 Representing and intervening: 'doing' good care infi rst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making121
Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch
10 'Wakey wakey baby': narrating four-dimensional(4D) bonding scans 136
Julie Roberts
Index 151

Über Autor(innen)

Natalie Armstrong is lecturer in Social ScienceApplied to Health at the University of Leicester. A medicalsociologist, Dr. Armstrong has previously held research posts atthe University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene andTropical Medicine.
Helen Eborall is lecturer in Social Science Appliedto Health at the University of Leicester, having previously workedas a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.