The Sociology of Medical Screening

Critical Perspectives, New Directions

Natalie Armstrong, Helen Eborall, Natalie Armstrong, Helen Eborall

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9781118231784
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118234372
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Sociologia

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

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future
• 2 Screening: mapping medicine’s temporal spaces
• 3 The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability’: health screening and lay uses of numerical risk
• 4 Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic
• 5 Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK
• 6 A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA
• 7 Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany
• 8 ‘Let’s have it tested first’: choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong
• 9 Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in first trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making
• 10 ‘Wakey wakey baby’: narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans
• Index