Health technologies aim to improve individual and population health, but they may also
exacerbate health disparities. Focusing on the specific design features of technologies, their …

This paper is a revision of the address given upon receipt of the Leo G. Reeder Award for
Distinguished Scholarship in Medical Sociology. It was presented on September 1, 1986 to …

This paper presents an organizational framework for an analysis of the structure and
processes observed in community centers. It is derived from the application of a political …

Modern developments of scientific medicine have uncovered and created uncertainties and
risks that were previously not known or experienced; the stakes have become very much …

In Animals as Biotechnology sociologist Richard Twine places the question of human/animal
relations at the heart of sustainability and climate change debates. The book is shaped by …

Extensive historical sleuthing reveals that the word" bioethics" and the field of study it names
experienced, in 1970/1971, a" bilocated birth" in Madison, Wisconsin, and in Washington …

Observing Bioethics examines the history of bioethics as a discipline related not only to
modern biology, medicine, and biotechnology, but also to the core values and beliefs of …

The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject
in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s …

Disease surveillance has been a basic public health activity since the late nineteenth
century (see Table 1). It is the foundation for initiatives to promote human well-being at the …

Confiants dans les" lumières de la raison naturelle"... Us n'ont pas vu qu'ils étaient en
présence d'une conception du monde et de modes de pen-sée fondamentalement différents …