Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty - Couverture souple

Teston, Christa

 
9780226450667: Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty
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ISBN 10 : 022645066X ISBN 13 : 9780226450667
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2017

Synopsis

Doctors, scientists, and patients have long grappled with the dubious nature of “certainty” in medical practice. To help navigate the chaos caused by ongoing bodily change we rely on scientific reductions and deductions. We take what we know now and make best guesses about what will be. But bodies in flux always outpace the human gaze. Particularly in cancer care, processes deep within our bodies are at work long before we even know where to look. In the face of constant biological and technological change, how do medical professionals ultimately make decisions about care?

Bodies in Flux explores the inventive ways humans and nonhumans work together to manufacture medical evidence. Each chapter draws on rhetorical theory to investigate a specific scientific method for negotiating medical uncertainty in cancer care, including evidential visualization, assessment, synthesis, and computation. Case studies unveil how doctors rely on visuals when deliberating about a patient’s treatment options, how members of the FDA use inferential statistics to predict a drug’s effectiveness, how researchers synthesize hundreds of clinical trials into a single evidence-based recommendation, and how genetic testing companies compute and commoditize human health. Teston concludes by advocating for an ethic of care that pushes back against the fetishization of certainty—an ethic of care that honors human fragility and bodily flux.

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À propos de l'auteur

Christa Teston is assistant professor of English at The Ohio State University.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
022645066X
ISBN 13 
9780226450667
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
253
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Personne responsable
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9780226450520: Bodies in Flux: Scientific Methods for Negotiating Medical Uncertainty

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ISBN 10 :  022645052X ISBN 13 :  9780226450520
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2017
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