Sky Gross
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5900179 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sky Gross |
| NOMBRES | Sky |
| APELLIDO | Gross |
| FIRMA | GROSS S |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Medicine, Technology, and Religion Reconsidered
The introduction of respiratory machines in the 1950s may have saved the lives of many, but it also challenged the notion of death itself. This development endowed "machines" with the power to form a unique ontological creature: a live body with a "dead" brain. While technology may be blamed for complicating things in the first place, it is also called on to solve the resulting quandaries. Indeed, it is not the birth of the "brain-dead" that conc…
Visibly Dead
The paper discusses the role of visualization technologies and instrumental devices in the acceptance of “brain death” with rabbinic bodies and the law in Israel. The authors suggest that technologies serve the traditional in the interplay between lay and technical epistemologies, namely where the “corpse” appears to be alive
Biomedicine inside out
The article discusses patient objectification from the viewpoint of the objectifying, rather than the objectified party. Resisting a dichotomy between physician-objectifying and ethnographer-humanising, the author portrays objectification not as an essential by-product of professional tendencies, epistemological bases, practical necessities and processes of socialisation but as highly dependent upon context. A further look is given to the setting…
‘The alien baby’
The author uses the narrative of a mother, whose baby's Down Syndrome diagnosis was only ascertained days after his birth, to shed light upon the epistemological and social foundations of risk-medicine. This is a practice which, by seeking prediction through the working of probabilities, brings to the fore principles of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and ambiguity. The paper further portrays the salience of practices of indignation and blame, as dis…
Experts and 'knowledge that counts
On knowing and believing
This paper presents the concept of ‘risk-medicine’ through the analysis of the rejection of prenatal screening among ultra Orthodox Jews in Israel. The foundations of this phenomenon are examined, defining ‘risk’ as a major socio-cultural feature of late modern Western society. The authors describe eight possible components of resistance to biomedicine, some being specifically applicable to risk-medicine: cultural discrepancy, lack of information…
Boundary at work
The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to secure its boundaries and to protec…
Boundary at work
The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to secure its boundaries and to protec…
Experts and 'knowledge that counts
Biomedicine inside out
The article discusses patient objectification from the viewpoint of the objectifying, rather than the objectified party. Resisting a dichotomy between physician-objectifying and ethnographer-humanising, the author portrays objectification not as an essential by-product of professional tendencies, epistemological bases, practical necessities and processes of socialisation but as highly dependent upon context. A further look is given to the setting…
Medicine, Technology, and Religion Reconsidered
The introduction of respiratory machines in the 1950s may have saved the lives of many, but it also challenged the notion of death itself. This development endowed "machines" with the power to form a unique ontological creature: a live body with a "dead" brain. While technology may be blamed for complicating things in the first place, it is also called on to solve the resulting quandaries. Indeed, it is not the birth of the "brain-dead" that conc…
Boundary at work
The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to secure its boundaries and to protec…
On knowing and believing
This paper presents the concept of ‘risk-medicine’ through the analysis of the rejection of prenatal screening among ultra Orthodox Jews in Israel. The foundations of this phenomenon are examined, defining ‘risk’ as a major socio-cultural feature of late modern Western society. The authors describe eight possible components of resistance to biomedicine, some being specifically applicable to risk-medicine: cultural discrepancy, lack of information…
Experts and 'knowledge that counts
‘The alien baby’
The author uses the narrative of a mother, whose baby's Down Syndrome diagnosis was only ascertained days after his birth, to shed light upon the epistemological and social foundations of risk-medicine. This is a practice which, by seeking prediction through the working of probabilities, brings to the fore principles of uncertainty, indeterminacy, and ambiguity. The paper further portrays the salience of practices of indignation and blame, as dis…
Biomedicine inside out
The article discusses patient objectification from the viewpoint of the objectifying, rather than the objectified party. Resisting a dichotomy between physician-objectifying and ethnographer-humanising, the author portrays objectification not as an essential by-product of professional tendencies, epistemological bases, practical necessities and processes of socialisation but as highly dependent upon context. A further look is given to the setting…
Visibly Dead
The paper discusses the role of visualization technologies and instrumental devices in the acceptance of “brain death” with rabbinic bodies and the law in Israel. The authors suggest that technologies serve the traditional in the interplay between lay and technical epistemologies, namely where the “corpse” appears to be alive
Medicine, Technology, and Religion Reconsidered
The introduction of respiratory machines in the 1950s may have saved the lives of many, but it also challenged the notion of death itself. This development endowed "machines" with the power to form a unique ontological creature: a live body with a "dead" brain. While technology may be blamed for complicating things in the first place, it is also called on to solve the resulting quandaries. Indeed, it is not the birth of the "brain-dead" that conc…
Epistemology (4 obras) · Philosophy (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Empathy and Medical Education (3 obras) · History (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Psychology (3 obras) · Aesthetics (2 obras) · Anthropology (2 obras)