Life and death under high technology medicine
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Life and death under high technology medicine
（The Fulbright papers, v. 15）
Manchester University Press in association with the Fulbright Commission, London , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St.Martin's Press, c1994
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Proceedings of a colloquium sponsored by the U.S.-U.K. Educational Commission
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- Life and death under high technology medicine, Ian Robinson. Part 1 Understanding life in the context of high technology medicine: the social consequences of advances in the clinical applications of genetics, Martin Bobrow and Elizabeth Manners
- screening for fetal and genetic disease - some social and psychological consequences, Martin Richards and Jo Green
- the human genome project - creator of the potentially sick, potentially vulnerable and potentially stigmatised?, Regina Kenen
- displacing knowledge - the consequences for kinship, Marilyn Strathern. Part 2 Social and ethical issues in managing the use of high technology medicine: ethical and economic aspects of life saving technologies, Bryan Jennett
- the social consequences of the development of the artificial heart, Thomas Preston
- biotechnology, profits and patients - how should the law respond?, Michael Freeman
- a monopsonistic market - or how to buy and sell human organs, tissues and cells ethically, Charles Erin and John Harris. Part 3 The cultural context of choice in relation to high technology medicine: making choices about death, Roger Higgs
- contests with death - ideologies of nationalism and internationalism in Japan, Margaret Lock
- what is power? how is decision? the heart has its reasons, Ronald Frankenberg. Part 4 Understanding the social role and development of high technology medicine: the lay understanding of scientific medicine, Michael Calnan and Simon Williams
- a social role for technology - making the body legible, David Armstrong
- rehabilitating sick people - high technology medicine and the reconstruction of normal possibilities, Ian Robinson
- technology, medicine and the psychosocial context - the case of psychoneuroimmunology, Margot Lyon.
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