New Medical Technologies and Society: Reordering Life

by Nik Brown and Andrew Webster

Book Overview

New medical technologies are increasingly at the centre of novel transformations in the human and social body. Whilst reproduction, health, ageing and dying have long been areas for technical intervention, the emergence of molecular biology and information technology raise far-reaching political, social and subjective questions.


New Medical Technologies and Society provides a critical introduction to the role and cultural significance...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745627242
• ISBN13: 9780745627243
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"