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The Emergence of E-Scaped Medicine?

Sarah Nettleton

University of York, sjn2{at}york.ac.uk

This article asks the question, is it possible to decipher a new ‘medical cosmology’ that possesses an elective affinity with contemporary socio-technological changes? It tentatively answers in the positive and attempts to identify the parameters of a new medical cosmology that it terms e-scaped medicine.To discern the conceptual underpinnings of e-scaped medicine the article draws on De Mul’s theorization of the ‘informatization of the worldview’.The article elaborates on this thesis in relation to medicine’s prime object - the body - and to a number of medical practices that surround it.

Key Words: bodies • ICTs • information • medical knowledge

Sociology, Vol. 38, No. 4, 661-679 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0038038504045857
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