The Sociology of Medical Science and Technology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11085525 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Duane A Matcha (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 623 |
| Publication date | 1999-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | The sociology of medical science and technology, Mary Ann Elston, 1997 |
| Venue | Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0094-3061 • E-ISSN: 1939-8638 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2655060 |
| OpenAlex | W2074171569 |
| Language | EN |
1. Assessing the Social Impact of Genetic Biotechnologies: Evan Willis (La Trobe University Australia). 2. The Abortion Pill RU486: A Case of Organizational and Technological Change: Sharon Tabberer (Anglia Polytechnic University). 3. a Strange Bedfellowsa in the Laboratory of the NHS? An Institutional and Methodological Analysis of the new Science of Health Technology Assessment in the United Kingdom: Alex Faulkner (University of Bristol). 4. The Rhetoric of Prediction and Chance in the Research to Clone a Disease Gene: Paul Atkinson, Claire Bachelor and Evelyn Parsons (University of Wales, Cardiff). 5. Knowledge of the Body: Lay and Biomedical Understanding of Musculoskeletal Disorders: Helen Busby, Gareth Williams and Anne Rogers (University of Salford). 6. The Science and Politics of Medicines Regulation: John Abraham (University of Sussex). 7. Medical Pedigrees and the Visual Production of Family Disease in Canadian and Japanese Genetic Counseling Practices: Yoshio Nukaga and Alberto Cambrosio (McGill University, Canada). 8. Vital Comparisons: The Social Construction of Measurement in Health: Mel Bartley (University College, London) and David Blane (Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, London)
Engineering ethics · Medical education · Medical science · Medical sociology · Social science · Sociology · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Engineering · Medicine · Nursing
Between Neutrality and Engagement
Regulating human genetics
The Dependent Consumer
Putting Pain to Paper
The Genuine Jewish Type
Sidney Pressey and the Automation of Education, 1924-1934
Ethical Problems and Genetics Practice
Regulating human implant technologies in Europe--understanding the new era in medical device regulation
How can Johns Hopkins not be angry?' A discursive case study of Chinese lay expert's science communication in the digital age
The Promise of Public Health
Rebirthing the Clinic
The role of the menopause in women's experiences of the 'change of life
There's this thing in our family
Mobilising modern facts
Gender and Reproductive Technologies in East Asia
Medical Innovations
Rethinking biomedicine in the age of translational research
Medical Discourse and Time
Domestic practice, situated contingency and adherence to medical directives
Knowing as practice
Exposing the Limitations of Disability Theory
Professional constructions of family and kinship in medical genetics
They want to know where they came from
The Golden Star
Room with a rhinovirus? Blurring the boundaries between research and therapeutic space
Pharmacogenetics
Interpreting Images
Re‐inscribing Gender in New Modes of Medical Expertise
Tissue-Engineered Technologies
Health technology assessment in its local contexts
When protocols fail
Practicing research ethics
Personal meanings in the construction of need for total knee replacement surgery
At the point at which you can do something about it, then it becomes more relevant
The black-white suicide paradox
Is chronic widespread pain biographically disruptive
Colleague interactions and new drug prescribing behavior
New drug prescribing by hospital doctors
Resisting and promoting new technologies in clinical practice
Purity and the dangers of regenerative medicine
Constructivism, sociology and the new genetics 1
Beyond Decision Making
Grammars of Death
Psychiatric diagnosis under conditions of uncertainty
Empty ethics
Self, agency and the surgical collective
Beyond 'beer, fags, egg and chips'? Exploring lay understandings of social inequalities in health
The many meanings of care in clinical research
The lived political economy of occupational overuse syndrome among New Zealand workers
Introduction
No one agrees except for those of us who have it
Co-ordinating 'ethical' clinical trials
Expansion and uncertainty
Dysmorphology and the spectacle of the clinic
Genes as drugs
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |