The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions

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Natalie Armstrong (University of Leicester, UK) Helen Eborall (University of Leicester, UK)

The Sociology of Medical Screening

Critical Perspectives, New Directions

Natalie Armstrong (University of Leicester, UK), Helen Eborall (University of Leicester, UK)

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English

Wiley-Blackwell
13 July 2012

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Personal & public health

Series: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs

The Sociology of Medical Screening: Critical Perspectives, New Directions presents a series of readings that provide an up-to-date overview of the diverse sociological issues relating to population-based medical screening.

Features new research data in most of the contributions Includes contributions from eminent sociologists such as David Armstrong, Stefan Timmermans, and Alison Pilnick Represents one of the only collections to specifically address the sociology of medical screening

Edited by: Natalie Armstrong (University of Leicester UK), Helen Eborall (University of Leicester, UK)
Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9781118231784
ISBN 10: 1118231783
Series: Sociology of Health and Illness Monographs
Pages: 168
Publication Date: 13 July 2012
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Notes on Contributors vii 1 The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future 1 Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall 2 Screening: mapping medicine’s temporal spaces 17 David Armstrong 3 The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability’: health screening and lay uses of numerical risk 33 Chris Gillespie 4 Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic 47 Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder 5 Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK 60 Alex Faulkner 6 A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA 73 Stuart Hogarth, Michael M. Hopkins and Victor Rodriguez 7 Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany 90 Janina Kehr 8 ‘Let’s have it tested first’: choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong 105 Alison Pilnick and Olga Zayts 9 Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in fi rst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making 121 Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch 10 ‘Wakey wakey baby’: narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans 136 Julie Roberts Index 151

Natalie Armstrong is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. A medical sociologist, Dr. Armstrong has previously held research posts at the University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Helen Eborall is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester, having previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.