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Svalastog, A. L. (Ed), Gajović, S. (Ed), Webster, A. (Ed) (2021)
Navigating Digital Health Landscapes explores how users navigate the internet when searching for health information. It is the first book to conceptualise the internet as a …
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Pasveer, B. (Ed), Synnes, O. (Ed), Moser, I. (Ed) (2020)
This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in ‘homely’ institutions. Throughout the book, contributors show how home is a …
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Mahr, D. (Ed), von Arx, M. (Ed) (2020)
Are you your genes? De-Sequencing: Identity Work with Genes explores this perplexing question, showing how different forms of knowledge must be contextualized to become …
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Voléry, I. (Ed), Julien, M. (Ed) (2020)
This book provides a solid basis to understand two centuries of bodily measurement practices and their scientific and political scope throughout the Western world. By exploring …
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Webster, A. (Ed), Wyatt, S. (Ed) (2020)
This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the …
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Oudshoorn, N. (2020)
This book examines how pacemakers and defibrillators participate in transforming life and death in high-tech societies. In both popular and medical accounts, these internal …
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Pedersen, K. Z. (2018)
This book examines the organizational consequences of the recent international preoccupation with managing patient safety in the clinic. Built on presuppositions about failsafe …
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Brosnan, C. (Ed), Vuolanto, P. (Ed), Danell, J. B. (Ed) (2018)
This book examines how complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) – as knowledge, philosophy and practice – is constituted by, and transformed through, broader social …
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Lynch, R. (Ed), Farrington, C. (Ed) (2018)
This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general …
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Petersen, A., Munsie, M., Tanner, C., MacGregor, C., Brophy, J. (2017)
This book provides a unique and innovative perspective on the controversial phenomenon of ‘stem cell tourism’. A growing number of patients are embarking on stem cell treatments …
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Gardner, J. (2017)
This book draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of …
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Boenink, M. (Ed), van Lente, H. (Ed), Moors, E. (Ed) (2016)
This book explores international biomedical research and development on the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. It offers timely, multidisciplinary reflections on the social …
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Bateman, S. (Ed), Allouche, S. (Ed), Gayon, J. (Ed), Marzano, M. (Ed), Goffette, J. (Ed) (2015)
This book explores issues raised by past and present practices of animal enhancement in terms of their means and their goals, clarifies conceptual issues and identifies lessons …
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Bateman, S. (Ed), Allouche, S., Gayon, J., Marzano, M., Goffette, J. (2015)
Human enhancement has become a major concern in debates about the future of contemporary societies. This interdisciplinary book is devoted to clarifying the underlying ambiguities …
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Sleeboom-Faulkner, M. (2014)
Empirical studies of life science research and biotechnologies in Asia show how assemblages of life articulate bioethics governance with global moralities and reveal why the …
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Davis, C., Abraham, J. (2013)
This is the first book to examine how effectively American and supranational EU governments have regulated innovative pharmaceuticals during the last 30 years regarding public …
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Michael, M., Rosengarten, M. (2013)
With its focus on the offshore randomized control trials of a Pre-Exposure Prophylactic pill (PrEP) for preventing HIV infection, the volume develops a sustained analysis of the …
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Webster, A. (Ed) (2013)
Regenerative medicine, encompassing stem cells and tissue engineering, has attracted huge interest within commercial, clinical and government circles, and promises to change …
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Oudshoorn, N. (2011)
Winner of the British Sociological Association Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book Prize, 2012. This book traces the changes in healthcare implicated in …
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Harris, R. (Ed), Wathen, N. (Ed), Wyatt, S. (Ed) (2010)
This book explore assumptions underpinning contemporary health policy discourses that emphasize personal responsibility for health, consider how they attach to changing …
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