Health consumption as work
The home pregnancy test as a domesticated health tool
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4601916 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet E Childerhose (0000-0003-0985-1306, McGill University Health Centre), M E Macdonald (0000-0002-8432-5544, York University) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2013-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.02.035 |
| PMID | 23608088 |
| OpenAlex | W1980640625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 43 |
Biology · Consumption (sociology · Domestication · Environmental health · Pregnancy · Public health · Social science · Sociology · Test (biology · Work (physics · Engineering · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Nursing · Gerontology
A Woman's Right to Know
Domesticating technology for shared success
The Making of Informed Choice in Midwifery
Positioning Human Microbiome DTC Tests On the Search for Health, Data and Alternatives Amid the Financialisation of Life
The Innovation Imperative in Global Health
L’enfant à naître
The demand for pregnancy testing
Bringing the pregnancy test home from the hospital
Mothering cancer
Domesticating dialysis
What the pregnancy test is testing
Misoprostol
Provisionally pregnant
Direct-to-consumer detection of atrial fibrillation in a smartwatch electrocardiogram
It's like having a physician in your pocket!' A critical analysis of self-diagnosis smartphone apps
C'est prévu pour quand
What Counts as Global Health
Reflections on Biopedagogies and/of Public Health
Technologies of time
Why do women seek ultrasound scans from commercial providers during pregnancy
Shaping technology/building society
Consumption and Commodities
Introduction
Design and the Domestication of Information and Communication Technologies
The cultural biography of things
Material culture and mass consumption
Sweetness and power
Consuming technologies
Capitalism
The Social Life of Things
Distinction
Introduction
Consuming Technologies
The World of Goods
"A Private Little Revolution"
Regulating Teenage Abortion in the United States
A Thin Blue Line
Natural Health Discourses and the Therapeutic Production of Consumer Resistance
The Domestication of New Technologies as a Set of Trials
Agenda for an anthropology of pharmaceutical practice
How Users Matter
Embodied Progress
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
The Consumer Society
Changing patterns of pharmaceutical practice in the United States
The boundaries of the self and the unhealthy other
The Home Pregnancy Test
Health as a meaningful social practice
Youtube
The Internet
Fast Relief
The Charm of Medicines
Our Beer
The Rise of Yuppie Coffees and the Reimagination of Class in the United States
Enticing the New Lad
How Infants Grow Mothers in North London
The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals
Tobacco Talk
Claims and disclaimers
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |