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The Sociology of Medical Screening : Critical Perspectives, New Directions.
The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening. Features new research data in most of the contributionsIncludes contributions...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
John Wiley & Sons,
2012.
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| Edición: | 2nd ed. |
| Colección: | Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The Sociology of Medical Screening; Contents; Notes on Contributors; 1: The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future; 2: Screening: mapping medicine's temporal spaces; 3: The experience of risk as 'measured vulnerability': health screening and lay uses of numerical risk; 4: Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic; 5: Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK.