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Strange Blood : The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond
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ISBN: 3839451639 3837651630 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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In the mid-1870s, the experimental therapy of lamb blood transfusion spread like an epidemic across Europe and the USA. Doctors tried it as a cure for tuberculosis, pellagra and anemia; proposed it as a means to reanimate seemingly dead soldiers on the battlefield. It was a contested therapy because it meant crossing boundaries and challenging taboos. Was the transfusion of lamb blood into desperately sick humans really defensible? The book takes the reader on a journey into hospital wards and lunatic asylums, physiological laboratories and 19th century wars. It presents a fascinating story of medical knowledge, ambitions and concerns - a story that provides lessons for current debates on the morality of medical experimentation and care. O-Ton: »When Lamb-to-Human Blood Transfusions Were All the Rage« - Boel Berner im Interview with newbooksnetwork.com am 12.10.2020. Besprochen in: https://lithub.com, 12.10.2020 https://www.books-readers.com, 10 (2020) Zeitsprung, 08.07.2020


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Teknikens värld : teknisk förändring och ingenjörsarbete i svensk industri
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ISBN: 918511829X Year: 1981 Publisher: Lund : Arkiv för studier i arbetarrörelsens historia,

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Technology and medical practice : blood, guts and machines
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ISBN: 9780754678366 0754678369 9780754696520 0754696529 9781315611983 9781317046370 9781317046387 9781138260382 Year: 2010 Publisher: Farnham : Ashgate,

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"Modern medicine is highly technological, with advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care to provide knowledge about the patient, define bodily states and structure everyday medical interventions and divisions of labour. Whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, however, their design and use may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? How is knowledge negotiated, or relations of power reconfigured?" "Technology and Medical Practice addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care. Technologies are discussed as part of the sociotechnical environment of everyday medical practices, alongside the emotions of trust and distrust, fear, relief and compassion which they involve." "Combining science and technology studies with medical sociology, the history of medicine and feminist approaches to science, this book presents analyses of artefacts-in-use across a variety of settings within the UK, USA and Europe, and will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of science and technology alike."--BOOK JACKET.

Manoeuvring in an environment of uncertainty : structural change and social action in sub-Saharan Africa
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ISBN: 0754611949 Year: 2000 Publisher: Aldershot : Ashgate,

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Constructing risk and safety in technological practice
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ISBN: 1134450419 1280180625 1134450427 0203216776 9786610180622 Year: 2003 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Modern technological systems entail risks and uncertainties of hitherto unknown dimensions. This book discusses the construction of risk and safety within a variety of empirical contexts where technologies and their risk are debated and handled by individuals, groups or organizations. With contributions from leading scholars from Europe and the USA, it presents original theoretical discussions, linked to detailed empirical case studies.


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Suède : l'égalité des sexes en question
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ISBN: 2738493319 Year: 2000 Volume: 27 Publisher: Paris : L'Harmattan,

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Engineering labour: technical workers in comparative perspective
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ISBN: 185984135X 1859849946 Year: 1996 Publisher: London Verso

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