Technologies and Health

INTRODUCTION: THE NEED FOR CRITICAL COMPROMISE; SECTION 1 - TECHNOLOGY: UTOPIA OR DYSTOPIA?; 1. The New Quest for Genetic Knowledge: The Need for Critique and Compromise in Predictive Technologies; 2. The RCT, Information Technology, and Research into Women's Health; SECTION 2 - THE BODY DIALECTIC: WOMEN AND THEIR HEALTH TECHNOLOGIES; 3. The Sexual Revolution and the Remaking of the IUD; 4. Women and HRT: Working a Position of Critical Compromise; 5. Failing to Use Technology: Difficult Women, Difficult Technology; 6. Infertile Women and Radical Feminism: Conflicting Narratives of Assisted Reproductive Technology; SECTION 3 - THE TOOLS OF OUR TRADE: SHAPING KNOWLEDGE AND REFLEXIVE PRACTICES; 7. Epidemiology and Technologies of Quantification; 8. Innovation and Compromise: Responsibility and Reflexivity in Research with Vulnerable Groups; 9. Putting Myself in the Picture: Researching Disability and Technology; SECTION 4 - GOLIATH TECHNOLOGIES; 10. Where Are You Going and What Are You Doing? Older Women and Public Transport; 11. Clinical Apartheid: 'Epileptic Colonies' as a Technology of Incarceration; 12. Casualties of Peace: The Agent Orange Debate; SECTION 5 - STRUGGLE AND STRIFE: TECHNOLOGY AND POLICY-MAKING FOR HEALTH; 13. Shining Light on Hidden Compromises: Policy-making and Medical Technology; 14. The Politics of Crisis in the Funding of Hospital Intensive Care Services; 15. Who Will Benefit? The Case of Screening for Breast Cancer Using Mammography