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Technologies and Health raises important and sometimes troubling questions about the role of technology and its relation to health. Using the notion of critical compromise as an organising framework, the potential benefits and detriments of a broad range of health technologies are debated.
| ISBN | 0195513509 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | ISBN13 | 9780195513509
(What's this?) | | Pages | 272 | | Publisher | Oxford University Press Australia | | Weight (grammes) | 300 | | Imprint | OUP Australia and New Zealand | | Published in | Melbourne | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 220 | | Publication date | 15 Aug 2001 | | Width (mm) | 150 | | DEWEY | 610.28 | | Academic level | Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Contributors | | | | | | Acknowledgments | | | | | | Introduction: The Need for Critical Compromise by Jeanne Daly and Marilys Guillemin and Sophie J. Hill | | | | Sect. 1 | | Technology: Utopia or Dystopia? | | | | 1 | | The New Quest for Genetic Knowledge: The Need for Critique and Compromise in Predictive Technologies by Sandy Taylor | | 2 | | 2 | | The RCT, Information Technology, and Research into Women's Health by Jeanne Daly | | 16 | | Sect. 2 | | The Body Dialectic: Women and Their Health Technologies | | | | 3 | | The Sexual Revolution and the Remaking of the IUD by Anni Dugdale | | 32 | | 4 | | Women and HRT: Working a Position of Critical Compromise by Marilys Guillemin | | 46 | | 5 | | Failing to Use Technology: Difficult Women, Difficult Technology by Emma Hughes | | 62 | | 6 | | Infertile Women and Radical, Feminism: Conflicting Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Technology by Maggie Kirkman | | 75 | | Sect. 3 | | The Tools of Our Trade: Shaping Knowledge and Reflexive Practices | | | | 7 | | Epidemiology and Technologies of Quantification by Anne Kavanagh | | 90 | | 8 | | Innovation and Compromise: Responsibility and Reflexivity in Research with Vulnerable Groups by Priscillo Pyett | | 105 | | 9 | | Putting Myself in the Picture: Researching Disability and Technology by Wendy Seymour | | 120 | | Sect. 4 | | Goliath Technologies | | | | 10 | | Where Are You Going and What Are You Doing? Older Women and Public Transport by Susan Feldman and Jeanne Daly | | 136 | | 11 | | Clinical Apartheid: 'Epileptic Colonies' as a Technology of Incarceration by Margaret Llewellyn | | 151 | | 12 | | Casualties of Peace: The Agent Orange Debate by Julie Ann Obray | | 166 | | Sect. 5 | | Struggle and Strife: Technology and Policy-making for Health | | | | | More... | | |
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