The Sociology Of Medical Screening Critical Perspectives New Directions Natalie Armstrong by Natalie Armstrong, Helen Eborall 9781118231784, 9781118234358, 1118231783, 1118234359 instant download after payment.

• Features new research data in most of the contributions
• Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick
• Represents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening

Content:
Chapter 1 The Sociology of Medical Screening: Past, Present and Future (pages 1–16): Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall
Chapter 2 Screening: Mapping Medicine's Temporal Spaces (pages 17–32): David Armstrong
Chapter 3 The Experience of Risk as ‘Measured Vulnerability’: Health Screening and Lay Uses of Numerical Risk (pages 33–46): Chris Gillespie
Chapter 4 Expanded Newborn Screening: Articulating the Ontology of Diseases with Bridging Work in the Clinic (pages 47–59): Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder
Chapter 5 Resisting the Screening Imperative: Patienthood, Populations and Politics in Prostate Cancer Detection Technologies for the UK (pages 60–72): Alex Faulkner
Chapter 6 A Molecular Monopoly? HPV Testing, the Pap Smear and the Molecularisation of Cervical Cancer Screening in the USA (pages 73–89): Stuart Hogarth, Michael M. Hopkins and Victor Rodriguez
Chapter 7 Blind Spots and Adverse Conditions of Care: Screening Migrants for Tuberculosis in France and Germany (pages 90–104): Janina Kehr
Chapter 8 ‘Let's have it Tested First’: Choice and Circumstances in Decision?Making Following Positive Antenatal Screening in Hong Kong (pages 105–120): Alison Pilnick and Olga Zayts
Chapter 9 Representing and Intervening: ‘doing’ Good Care in First Trimester Prenatal Knowledge Production and Decision?Making (pages 121–135): Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch
Chapter 10 ‘Wakey Wakey Baby’: Narrating Four?Dimensional (4D) Bonding Scans (pages 136–150): Julie Roberts