{"product_id":"medical-technologies-and-the-life-world-9780415364331","title":"Medical Technologies and the Life World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on peopleâs lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking book explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well-being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about normalcy, the body and identity, \u003cem\u003eMedical Technologies and the Life World\u003c\/em\u003e explores:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ehow these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create ânew illnessâ. \u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by authors with differing backgrounds in phenomenology, social psychology, socia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Medical technologies, the lifeworld and normality: An introduction   Sonja Olin Lauritzen \u0026amp; Lars-Christer Hydén          Chapter 2 Learning to talk and talking about talk:    Professional identity and communicative technology   Lars-Christer Hydén \u0026amp; Antje Lumma         Chapter 3 What’s in a Pap smear?    Biology, culture, technology and self in the cytology laboratory   Anette Forss         Chapter 4 Gyneacologists and geneticists as storytellers:    Disease, choice and normality as the fabric of narratives on    pre-implantation genetic diagnosis   Kristin Zeiler         Chapter 5 The normal baby-to-be:    Lay and professional negotiations of the ultrasound image   Ann-Cristine Jonsson         Chapter 6 A normal pregnancy?    Women’s experiences of being at high risk after ultrasound    screening for Down syndrome   Sonja Olin Lauritzen, Susanne Georgsson Öhman \u0026amp; Sissel Saltvedt         Chapter 7 Imaging technology and the detection of ‘cold aneurysms’:    Illness narratives on the Internet   Gunilla Tegern         Chapter 8 Phenomenology listens to Prozac:    Analyzing the SSRI revolution   Fredrik Svenaeus\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50577320411479,"sku":"9780415364331","price":82.64,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415364331.jpg?v=1746094888","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/medical-technologies-and-the-life-world-9780415364331","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}