New Technologies in Health Care: Challenge, Change and Innovation

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Series Editors\' Preface......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: New Technologies in Health Care: Opening the Black Bag......Page 16
Part 1 Genetic Risk, Reproduction and Identity......Page 24
1 The Genetic Iceberg: Risk and Uncertainty......Page 26
2 Navigating the Troubled Waters of Prenatal Testing Decisions......Page 40
3 Genetic Ambivalence: Expertise, Uncertainty and Communication in the Context of New Genetic Technologies......Page 55
Part 2 Information and Empowerment......Page 70
4 \'Pathways to the Doctor\' in the Information Age: the Role of ICTs in Contemporary Lay Referral Systems......Page 72
5 Desperately Seeking Certainty: Bone Densitometry, the Internet and Health Care Contexts......Page 86
6 Telemedicine, Telecare and the Future Patient: Innovation, Risk and Governance......Page 99
7 Patient \'Expertise\' and Innovative Health Technologies......Page 112
8 Making Sense of Mediated Information: Empowerment and Dependency......Page 127
Part 3 Innovation, Context and Meaning......Page 144
9 Time, Place and Settings: Negotiating Birth, Childhood and Death......Page 146
10 Replacing Hips and Lenses: Surgery, Industry and Innovation in Post-War Britain......Page 161
11 Access, Agency and Normality: the Wheelchair and the Internet as Mediators of Disability......Page 176
Part 4 Regulation and Evaluation of IHTs......Page 190
12 Understanding the \'Productivity Crisis\' in the Pharmaceutical Industry: Over-regulation or Lack of Innovation?......Page 192
13 Regulating Hybridity: Policing Pollution in Tissue Engineering and Transpecies Transplantation......Page 209
14 Cultural Politics and Human Embryonic Stem Cell Science......Page 226
15 Regulation and the Positioning of Complementary and Alternative Medicine......Page 239
16 Evaluation as an Innovative Health Technology......Page 247
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