tailieunhanh - Configuring Health Consumers

Medicine, health care and the wider social meaning and management of health are undergoing major changes. In part, this reflects developments in science and technology, which enable new forms of diagnosis, treatment and the delivery of health care. It also reflects changes in the locus of care and burden of responsibility for health. Today, genetics, informatics, imaging and integrative technologies, such as nanotechnology, are redefining our understanding of the body, health and disease; at the same time, health is no longer simply the domain of conventional medicine, nor the clinic | CONFIGURING HEALTH CONSUMERS Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility Edited by ROMA HARRIS NADINE WATHEN and SALLY WYATT Health Technology and Society Series Senes Editors Andrew Webster and Sally Wyatt Configuring Health Consumers Health Technology and Society Series Editors Andrew Webster University of York UK and Sally Wyatt Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences The Netherlands Titles include Ellen Balka Eileen Green and Flis Henwood editors GENDER HEALTH AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEXT Gerard de Vries and Klasien Horstman editors GENETICS FROM LABORATORY TO SOCIETY Societal Learning as an Alternative to Regulation Alex Faulkner MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY INTO HEALTHCARE AND SOCIETY A Sociology of Devices Innovation and Governance Herbert Gottweis Brian Salter and Catherine Waldby THE GLOBAL POLITICS OF HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL SCIENCE Regenerative Medicine in Transition Roma Harris Nadine Wathen and Sally Wyatt editors CONFIGURING HEALTH CONSUMERS Health Work and the Imperative of Personal Responsibility Jessica Mesman MEDICAL INNOVATION AND UNCERTAINTY IN NEONATOLOGY Nadine Wathen Sally Wyatt and Roma Harris editors MEDIATING HEALTH INFORMATION The Go-Betweens in a Changing Socio-Technical Landscape Andrew Webster editor NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH CARE Challenge Change and Innovation Forthcoming titles include John Abraham and Courtney Davis CHALLENGING PHARMACEUTICAL REGULATION Innovation and Public Health in Europe and the United States Health Technology and Society Series Standing Order ISBN 978-1-4039-9131-7 hardback outside North America only You can receive future titles in this series as they are published by placing a standing order. Please contact your bookseller or in case of difficulty write to us at the address below with your name and address the title of the series and the ISBN quoted above. Customer Services Department Macmillan Distribution Ltd Houndmills Basingstoke Hampshire RG21 6XS .