Sociology of Medical Screening (eBook)

Natalie Armstrong is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. A medical sociologist, Dr. Armstrong has previously held research posts at the University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Helen Eborall is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester, having previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

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