The Sociology of Medical Screening Critical Perspectives, New Directions

by Armstrong, Natalie; Eborall, Helen

• ISBN13: 9781118231784
• ISBN10: 1118231783
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-08-13
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening. 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

Author Biography

Natalie Armstrong is lecturer in Social science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. A medical sociologist, Dr. Armstrong has previously held research posts at the University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Helen Eborall is lecture in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester, having previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	p. vii
The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future	p. 1
Screening: mapping medicine's temporal spaces	p. 17
The experience of risk as 'measured vulnerability': health screening and lay uses of numerical risk	p. 33
Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic	p. 47
Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK	p. 60
A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA	p. 73
Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany	p. 90
'Let's have it tested first': choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong	p. 105
Representing and intervening: 'doing' good care in first trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making	p. 121
'Wakey wakey baby': narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans	p. 136
Index	p. 151
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