ISBN:
9781317377504
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (167 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Kierans, Ciara Social and Cultural Perspectives on Health, Technology and Medicine : Old Concepts, New Problems
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Health - Social aspects
;
Health - Social aspects
;
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Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Our agenda -- Core concepts and disciplinary boundaries -- Overview of chapters -- Notes -- References -- 1 Culture -- Introduction -- Reflections upon culture at the crash-points of disciplinary inquiry -- Culture: a modern construction -- Biomedicine: troubles in the invocation of culture -- Organ transplantation and the cultural encounter -- Assuming culture is here to stay: implications for methodology -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 Society -- Introduction -- Where to start: the problem of society and its promise -- Society sui generis: the making of society as a distinct object of concern -- Between individuals: social (inter)action, community and society -- The dualities of structure and the fracturing of the social -- Conceptualizing society through the 'social determinants of health' -- Stillbirth: a new global controversy? -- Breaking the silence: between individuals, society and medicine -- Society: a return to the concept's promise -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Magic -- Introduction -- Explaining the cause-effect relationship -- Beyond 'armchair' theories -- The rise of ritual -- Signs versus things and the question of ritual efficacy -- Implications for contemporary studies of health and medicine -- Cancer and causality -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Production -- Introduction -- Foundations of an approach to production -- The social relations of production and consumption -- Application of the production concept in health and medicine -- The social relations of (re)production -- (Re)production reconsidered: the making of planned caesarean birth -- Between technology, doctors, patients and consumers: production and health in co-constituted futures.
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