HSS 3332 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Database Security, Health Informatics, Medical Error
21 Feb 2017
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Tech and health readings: webster chapters 1 + 2. The meaning of health technologies vary with different settings. Technologies are best understood as an expression of social relationships. They work within the context of social relationships. Medical technologies are two-sided: provide new + more detailed sources of information about our illness but also present new forms of uncertainty and risk (ex. Important to look at the social expectations through which the technologies are defined. Health technologies can disrupt relationships we have with other people, but can also redefine our relationship towards our own body (sense of being ill/well, sense of control over our body) Sociological perspective looks at: the meaning, value, regulation and ethical implications of health technologies, as well as looking at the process though which new health technologies are introduced (what shaped their introduction?) Health technologies are not strictly developed for the health field (ex. Tech was not initially developed for the health field)
