Main description:

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

Contents:

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