New Technologies in Health Care: Challenge, Change and Innovation

Product Description 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. Review '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 About the Author JOHN ABRAHAM Professor of Sociology and Co-director of Centre for Research in Health and Medicine (CRHaM) at the University of Sussex, UK DAVID ARMSTRONG Reader in Sociology as Applied to Medicine in the Department of General Practice and Primary Care at King's College School of Medicine, London, UK PAUL ATKINSON Professor of Sociology at the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK ADITYA BHARADWAJ Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Studies, University of Edinburgh, UK NIK BROWN Lecturer in Sociology and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Studies Unit (SATSU) in the Department of Sociology at the University of York, UK JOHN CHATWIN Research Fellow at the School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, UK ANGUS CLARKE Professor in Clinical Genetics, Cardiff University, UK and directs the Cardiff MSc course in Genetic Counselling DAVID CLARK Professor of Medical Sociology and Director of the Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University, UK SIMON COHN Lecturer in Anthropology, Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK JOSEPH CULLEN Principal Researcher and Consultant at The Tavistock Institute, London, UK COURTNEY DAVIS Research Fellow in Sociology and the Centre for Research in Health and Medicine at the University of Sussex, UK MARK DAVIS Senior Lecturer in the School of Social Science, Media and Cultural Studies, UEL, London, UK ELIZABETH ETTORRE Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Research and Enterprise, Faculty of Social Sciences and Business, University of Plymouth, UK ALEX FAULKNER Senior Research Associate at the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics in the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK TRACY FINCH Senior Research Fellow in the Health Technologies and Human Relations research group at the Centre for Health Services Research (CHSR), University of Newcastle, UK PAUL FLOWERS Reader in the Department of Psychology, School of Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK NICK FOX Reader in the Sociology of Health and the Body, ScHARR, University of Sheffield, UK SARAH FRANKLIN Professor in Sociology at BIOS, London School of Economics, UK EILEEN GREEN Professor of Sociology and Director of the centre for Social and Policy Research in the School of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Teesside, UK JOSEPHINE GREEN Professor of Psychosocial Reproductive Health and Deputy Director of the Mother and Infant Research Unit at the University of York, UK FRANCES GRIFFITHS Deputy Director of the Centre for Primary Health Care and Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Warwick, UK GERARD HANLON Professor of Organization and Society at the Management Centre, University of Leicester, UK JANET HEATON Research Fellow at the Social Policy Research Unit, University of York, UK FLIS HENWOOD Reader in Social Informatics in the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences, University of Brighton, UK JENNY HEWISON Professor of the Psychology of Health Care, Academic Unit of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Leeds, UK JULIE KENT Reader in Sociology in the School of Sociology, University of the West of England,