Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and
medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little
analysis of the impact of such technologies on people's lives and
understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking book
explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and
well-being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise
questions about the 'natural' body. Focusing on the ways new health
technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about
normalcy, the body and identity, Medical Technologies and the Life
World explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay
people and patients how the outcomes of these technologies are
communicated in various clinical settings how these technologies
can alter our notions of health and illness and create 'new
illness'. Written by authors with differing backgrounds in
phenomenology, social psychology, social anthropology,
communication studies and the nursing sciences, this sensational
text is essential reading for students and academics of medical
sociology, health and allied studies, and anyone with an interest
in new health technologies.
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