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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Armstrong, Natalie
Other Authors: Eborall, Helen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Edition:2nd ed.
Series:Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.