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Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty
Christa Teston
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Description for Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty
hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages, 5 halftones, 11 line drawings, 16 tables. BIC Classification: MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Medical professionals, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of medical "certainty" regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease states. Constructing certainty requires reductions and deductions. It requires us to take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. We try to make peace with medical uncertainty by monitoring symptoms, modeling risk, and looking toward evidence. But bodies in flux always outpace the human gaze. With research, technologies, and patients themselves constantly changing, how do practitioners ultimately make decisions about care?Bodies in Flux looks at the many ways humans coproduce medical knowledge. Each ... Read more
Medical professionals, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of medical "certainty" regarding diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of disease states. Constructing certainty requires reductions and deductions. It requires us to take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. We try to make peace with medical uncertainty by monitoring symptoms, modeling risk, and looking toward evidence. But bodies in flux always outpace the human gaze. With research, technologies, and patients themselves constantly changing, how do practitioners ultimately make decisions about care?Bodies in Flux looks at the many ways humans coproduce medical knowledge. Each ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226450520
SKU
V9780226450520
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99-15
About Christa Teston
Christa Teston is assistant professor of English at the Ohio State University.
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