Health, Technology and Society

Author: Andrew Webster
Edition: 1st
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 1403995257
Category: Medical

Health, Technology and Society: A Sociological Critique

Health, Technology and Society looks at a range of current innovative health technologies, asking what the impetus is behind these systems, how they compare with and relate to the long tradition of health technology, and what new questions they pose for healthcare providers, users and regulators. Download Health, Technology and Society medical books for free.
In doing so, it explores how far new health technologies change the boundaries between the body, health, technology relationship, and assess the contribution a critical social science can make towards our understanding of this shift. At a time when many new developments are taking place in healthcare technologies, and when healthcare systems across the globe are increasingly underpinned by infrastructures dependent on information and communica Get Health, Technology and Society our bestseller medical books.

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