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 …

In this article, we review 25 years of sociological scholarship published in Sociology of
Health and Illness on medical technologies. We divide the literature into three theoretical …

The aim of this study was to systematically review the range, nature, and extent of current
research activity exploring the influence of innovative health-related technologies on social …

It is widely assumed that the use of medical care will lead to improvements in health, yet
questions remain about the medical system's contributions to health disparities. In this …

To rationalize and restrict health care spending, policy makers in many jurisdictions have
withdrawn insurance or funding for selected health care technologies. Numerous analytic …

In this selective review of the literature on medical sociology's engagement with technology,
we outline the concurrent developments of the American Sociological Association section on …

Health inequities among people of different races and ethnicities, geographical locations,
and social classes are not a new phenomenon, although the size of the inequities has …

W illiam Farr's insight into the nonrandom na-ture of health variations between nationstates
is as valid at the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was in the mid-nineteenth century …

Health disparities, also known as health inequities, are systematic and potentially
remediable differences in one or more aspects of health across population groups defined …

Bioethics' traditional focus on clinical relationships and exotic technologies has led the field
away from population health, health disparities, and issues of justice. The result: a myopic …