SOSC 3993 Study Guide - Final Guide: Alternative Medicine, Biomedicine, Ayurveda
16 Dec 2013
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Medical tech that takes pictures inside of living human body to see things patients couldn"t. When 1st introduced used as a fad for rich people not used as medical tech. Continue to medicalization because it looks at the body in terms of functioning parts rather than holistically, taking x-ray of specific parts of the body. Compartmentalization of human body, relates to foucault"s the gaze because the x-ray gives us a gaze into the human body and parts of it. Important because of technological imperatives because it technology didn"t exist its wrong for western biomedicine not to use stricter reading, reproductive tech and how it strips power from patients because if you don"t use the technology its wrong. Changes doctor patient relationships from touching/intimacy/feel bodies to using machinery and tech distances relationship. Daniel callaghan"s theory of the conquest of death because globally as a medical technology they exist to prolong life not quality but quantity.
