New Technologies in Health Care

Challenge, Change and Innovation

A Webster editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '06

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The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers.The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers.

'The book reviews innovative health technologies and associated everyday practices of health as expressions of social relationships...[it] draws a complex map of relationships that sketches the state of the literature on sociological studies on health and technology today [and] will be particularly appealing to academics with advanced knowledge of the field of sociology of health and illness.' - Sociology

ISBN: 9781349542727

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275 pages

1st ed. 2006