Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology Is Impacting Social Relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about What Is Normal

By Kathryn Burrows, Misria Shaik Ali, Amber Nicole Brooks, India Chakravarthi, Alan Hawk, Danielle Kabella, Jenny Kennedy, Ankita Mukherjee, Anna Gonzalez Suero, Rowan Wilken Medical Technology and the Social: How Medical Technology is Impacting Social relations, Institutions, and Beliefs about what is Normal explores the intersection of society and medical technology to examine how medical technology impacts our day-to-day lives. The contributors examine a variety of technologies and their impact on the social world, from older technologies such as the use of fax machines in hospitals to cutting-edge technologies such as Bluetooth-enabled smart pills. Underlying each chapter is a consideration of what is “normal”, investigating such themes as power and social control, diffusion of technology, eco-crip theory, the changing role of medical expertise, the embodiment of the fetus in utero, the history of prosthetics, and how technology has reformed conceptions of a “normal” body. Product Details Publisher ‏ : ‎ Lexington Books (February 2, 2024) Language ‏ : ‎ English Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 224 pages ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1666940941 ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1666940947