New Technologies in Health Care
Challenge, Change and Innovation
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Palgrave USA
Published:25th Jul '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 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: 9781403991300
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 495g
275 pages
2006 ed.