Medical technologies and the life world [electronic resource] : the social construction of normality / [edited by] Sonja Olin Lauritzen and Lars-Christer Hydén.
Series: Critical studies in health and societyPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon, UK ; New York : Routledge, 2007.Description: viii, 189 pISBN:- 9780203015452
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eBooks
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Medical technologies, the lifeworld, and normality : an introduction / Sonja Olin Lauritzen & Lars-Christer Hydén -- 2. Learning to talk and talking about talk : professional identity and communicative technology / Lars-Christer Hydén & Antje Lumma -- 3. What's in a Pap smear? Biology, culture, technology, and self in the cytology laboratory / Anette Forss -- 4. Gyneacologists and geneticists as storytellers : disease, choice, and normality as the fabric of narratives on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis / Kristin Zeiler -- 5. The normal baby-to-be : lay and professional negotiations of the ultrasound image / Ann-Cristine Jonsson -- 6. A normal pregnancy? Women's experiences of being at high risk after ultrasound screening for Down syndrome / Sonja Olin Lauritzen, Susanne Georgsson Öhman & Sissel Saltvedt -- 7. Imaging technology and the detection of "cold aneurysms" : illness narratives on the Internet / Gunilla Tegern -- 8. Phenomenology listens to Prozac : analyzing the SSRI revolution / Fredrik Svenaeus.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.