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Description
Examines a range of current innovative health technologies, exploring how far they change the boundaries between the body, health, technology relationship, and assessing the contribution a critical social science can make towards our understanding of this shift.
Table of Contents
The Dynamics of Biomedical Innovation
Corporate Health, Markets and Regulation
Body, Identity and the Meaning of Health
Managing and Governing New Health Technologies
The Contested Sick Role
Conclusion: Novel Technologies, New Social Relations?
Product details
Published | 16 Sep 2017 |
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Format | Ebook (PDF) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 224 |
ISBN | 9781137095930 |
Imprint | Red Globe Press |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |