Nettleton, S. (2004) The Emergence of E-Scaped Medicine. Sociology: A Journal of the British Sociological Association, 38 (4). pp. 661-680. ISSN 0038-0385
Abstract
This article asks the question, is it possible to decipher a new ‘medical cosmology’ that possesses an elective affinity with contemporary socio-technological changes? It tentatively answers in the positive and attempts to identify the parameters of a new medical cosmology that it terms e-scaped medicine.To discern the conceptual underpinnings of e-scaped medicine the article draws on De Mul’s theorization of the ‘informatization of the worldview’.The article elaborates on this thesis in relation to medicine’s prime object - the body - and to a number of medical practices that surround it.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keywords: | bodies; ICTs; information; medical knowledge |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Sociology (York) |
Depositing User: | York RAE Import |
Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2009 17:51 |
Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2009 17:51 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038504045857 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0038038504045857 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:7508 |