{"product_id":"the-sociology-of-medical-screening-9781118231784","title":"The Sociology of Medical Screening","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs new technology makes it possible to screen for an increasing number of medical conditions, this strategy of preventive medicine raises fundamental issues for sociological inquiry.   The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents an overview of these fundamental issues.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNatalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Screening: mapping medicine’s temporal spaces 17\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDavid Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability’: health screening and lay uses of numerical risk 33\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eChris Gillespie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic 47\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK 60\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlex Faulkner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA 73\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStuart Hogarth, Michael M. Hopkins and Victor Rodriguez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany 90\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJanina Kehr\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 ‘Let’s have it tested first’: choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong 105\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlison Pilnick and Olga Zayts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in fi rst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making 121\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNete Schwennesen and Lene Koch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 ‘Wakey wakey baby’: narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans 136\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJulie Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 151\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406842437975,"sku":"9781118231784","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sociology-of-medical-screening-9781118231784","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}