Medical Technologies and the Life World The social construction of normality By: Sonia Olin Lauritzen Publisher: Routledge Print ISBN: 9780415364348, 0415364345 eText ISBN: 9781134219971, 1134219970 Edition: 1st Pages: 200 Copyright year: 2007 Format: EPUB Available from $ 26.38 USD SKU 9781134219971R90 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 tec Download ebook: https://ouo.io/Cp3hxk
