Medical Science and Technology Studies

TY - CHAP

T1 - Medical Science and Technology Studies

AU - Hoeyer, Klaus

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Medical science and technology studies (STS) can be understood as a forum for scholars with backgrounds in many different disciplines who study how social, political, and cultural practices shape medical research, technological innovation, clinical routines, and understandings of health and illness—and how these in turn affect society, politics, and culture. It is also a field where scholars often seek to transgress the implicit bifurcation between “medicine” and “society” implied in the previous sentence. This entry outlines key sources of inspiration for the field and describes different ways in which medical STS scholars construe their objects of study, before reflecting on the exchanges and mutual influences of anthropology and STS in relation to the study of medicine, health, and health care

AB - Medical science and technology studies (STS) can be understood as a forum for scholars with backgrounds in many different disciplines who study how social, political, and cultural practices shape medical research, technological innovation, clinical routines, and understandings of health and illness—and how these in turn affect society, politics, and culture. It is also a field where scholars often seek to transgress the implicit bifurcation between “medicine” and “society” implied in the previous sentence. This entry outlines key sources of inspiration for the field and describes different ways in which medical STS scholars construe their objects of study, before reflecting on the exchanges and mutual influences of anthropology and STS in relation to the study of medicine, health, and health care

U2 - 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1514

DO - 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1514

M3 - Book chapter

BT - The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology

A2 - Callan, Hilary

PB - Wiley

CY - London

ER -