Mammography wars : analyzing attention in cultural and medical disputes / [electronic resource]

• 作者： Friedman, Asia, author.
• 其他題名：
  • Critical issues in health and medicine.
• 出版： New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press
• 叢書名： Critical issues in health and medicine
• 主題： Breast--Radiography. , Breast--Cancer--Diagnosis. , Breast Neoplasms--diagnosis. , Mammography--standards. , Early Detection of Cancer--standards. , Practice Guidelines as Topic. , Dissent and Disputes. , Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice. , Sociological Factors.
• ISBN： 9781978830660 (electronic bk.) 、 1978830661 (electronic bk.)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Includes bibliographical references and index. Skepticism and Interventionism as Attentional Types -- Attentional Diversity : The Cognitive Structure of Patient Narratives of Mammography -- Attentional Battles over Mammography -- Attentional Weight : Relevance, Risk, and Expertise in Mammography -- Mammography and Time -- Conclusion: Attentional Flexibility : The Sociology of Attention and Dereifying Relevance in Cultural and Scientific Conflicts.
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• 摘要註: "Mammography is a routine health screening performed 40 million times each year in the United States, yet it remains one of the most deeply contested topics in medicine, with national health care organizations supporting conflicting guidelines. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman examines cultural and medical disagreements over mammography. At issue is whether to screen women under age 50, which is rooted in deeper questions about early detection and the assumed linear and progressive development of breast cancer. Based on interviews with doctors and scientists, interviews with women age 40-50, and newspaper coverage of mammography, Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the "mammography wars," offering insights into the entrenched nature of debates over mammography that often get missed when applying a medical lens. Friedman's analysis also suggests the sociology of attention's unique potential for analyzing cultural conflicts beyond mammography, and even beyond medicine"--
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