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    Health, technology and society : a sociological critique / Andrew Webster.

    • Title:Health, technology and society : a sociological critique / Andrew Webster.
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    • Variant Title:Health, technology & society
    • Author/Creator:Webster, Andrew, 1951-
    • Published/Created:Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Medical technology--Social aspects.
    • Description:viii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-207) and indexes.
    • ISBN:9781403995254 (pbk.)
      9781403995247 (hbk.)
      1403995249 (hbk.)
      1403995257 (pbk.)
    • Contents:1. Understanding innovative health technologies
      2. dynamics of biomedical innovation
      3. Corporate health, markets and regulation
      4. Body, identity and the meaning of health
      5. Managing and governing new health technologies
      6. contested sick role
      7. Conclusion : novel technologies, new social relations?
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