{"product_id":"new-medical-technologies-and-society-isbn-9780745627236","title":"New Medical Technologies and Society","description":"New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far-reaching political, social and subjective questions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Medical Technologies and Society\u003c\/i\u003e provides a critical introduction to the role and cultural significance of technological innovation in redefining the boundaries of medicine and the body, tracing this process through the figure of \"the lifecourse\". Drawing on approaches from sociology and Science and Technology Studies, the authors explore key issues, theories and debates at the junctures of bodies and medicine. In a style that is both innovative and challenging, Nik Brown and Andrew Webster open up an important examination of new medical technologies not only for those directly engaged, but for a wider audience interested in the ways in which contemporary technologies can be interrogated through core sociological inquiry. They argue that, whilst many technologies emerge from and extend long-standing frameworks of medical treatment, genuinely novel and radical challenges to our interpretations of embodiment are emerging.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book will be essential reading for both students and scholars of the sociology of science and technology, medical sociology, social theory, genetics and informatics.\u003c\/p\u003e  Chapter One Introduction: New Medical Technologies and Society. \u003cp\u003eChapter two Science \u0026amp; Technology Studies: Opening the Black Bag.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Three Reproducing Medical Technology.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Four Maintaining the Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Five Substituting the Body.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Six Technologies of Death and Dying.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eChapter Seven Conclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTechnical Glossary.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences and Bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  ‘This is a timely analysis of the ways in which contemporary medical technologies are reshaping the human lifecourse, and indeed our very ideas of life and death. While pointing to the spirals of expectation and disappointment that run through all these developments, Brown and Webster show that new forms of life are being generated in which human vitality is enmeshed in novel institutional, professional, legal and experiential networks. The book not only provides a map of this emerging field, but draws on a wide range of sociological arguments to develop conceptual tools that will prove very helpful to those working in this increasingly crucial area.’ – \u003ci\u003eNikolas Rose, London School of Economics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘An especially useful and thorough treatment. Brown and Webster demonstrate the efficacy of science and technology studies for understanding the myriad ways in which new medical technologies are reordering life.’ – \u003ci\u003eSteve Woolgar, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eNik Brown\u003c\/b\u003e is Research Fellow and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), University of York. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Webster\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Sociology of Science and Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU), University of York\u003c\/p\u003e  New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far-reaching political, social and subjective questions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Medical Technologies and Society\u003c\/i\u003e provides a critical introduction to the role and cultural significance of technological innovation in redefining the boundaries of medicine and the body, tracing this process through the figure of \"the lifecourse\". Drawing on approaches from sociology and Science and Technology Studies, the authors explore key issues, theories and debates at the junctures of bodies and medicine. In a style that is both innovative and challenging, Nik Brown and Andrew Webster open up an important examination of new medical technologies not only for those directly engaged, but for a wider audience interested in the ways in which contemporary technologies can be interrogated through core sociological inquiry. They argue that, whilst many technologies emerge from and extend long-standing frameworks of medical treatment, genuinely novel and radical challenges to our interpretations of embodiment are emerging.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe book will be essential reading for both students and scholars of the sociology of science and technology, medical sociology, social theory, genetics and informatics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989687484645,"sku":"NP9780745627236","price":72.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780745627236.jpg?v=1761785108","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/new-medical-technologies-and-society-isbn-9780745627236","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}