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• Title:New medical technologies and society : reordering life / Nik Brown & Andrew Webster.
  
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• Author/Creator:Brown, Nik.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Webster, Andrew, 1951-
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, 2004.
  

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  • Location:BMB LIBRARY (VGH) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W82 .B879 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: W82 .B879 2004
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects: Medical innovations--Social aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects:Biomedical Technology--ethics.
  Biomedical Technology--trends.
  Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
  Social Change.
  
• Description:216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Summary:A critical introduction to the role and cultural significance of technological innovation in redefining the boundaries of medicine and the body, tracing this process through the figure of 'the lifecourse'.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-208) and index.
  
• ISBN:0745627234 (hbk.)
  0745627242 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:1. Introduction : new medical technologies and society
  2. Science and technology studies : opening the black bag
  3. Reproducing medical technology
  4. Maintaining the body
  5. Substituting the body
  6. Technologies of death and dying
  7. Conclusion : reordering life.