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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david ribes”
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  • Machineries of Similarity and Difference

    AIDS from Its Research Infrastructures

    by David Ribes ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    An examination of three research infrastructures over three decades as they sought to support studies of HIV/AIDS across dramatic changes to the disease, the science, and its politics.In Machineries of Similarity and Difference, David Ribes theorizes interoperability, or how to make different things work together. For the last 30 years, standardization has been the dominant social scientific motif ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Postphenomenology and Imaging

    How to Read Technology

    by Samantha J. Fried, Robert Rosenberger, Bas de Boer, Anette Forss, Cathrine Hasse, Stacey O. Irwin, Lisa Messeri, David Ribes, Will Sutherland0, Janet Vertesi1, Katie Warfield2, Don Ihde3, Robert P. Crease4, Jan Kyrre Berg Friis5 ...
    Series series Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology
    How should we understand the experience of encountering and interpreting images? What are their roles in science and medicine? How do they shape everyday life? Postphenomenology and Imaging: How to Read Technology brings together scholars from multiple disciplines to investigate these questions. The contributors make use of the “postphenomenological” philosophical perspective, applying its ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • digitalSTS

    A Field Guide for Science & Technology Studies

    by Janet Vertesi, Janet Vertesi, David Ribes, David Ribes, Laura Forlano, Alexandre Camus, Dominique Vinck, Nerea Calvillo, Daniela K. Rosner, Christina Dunbar-Hester, Xaroula (Charalampia) Kerasidou0, Luke Stark1, Stéphane Couture2, Steven J. Jackson3, Anita Say Chan4, Camilla A. Hawthorne5, Carla Ilten6, Paul-Brian McInerney7, David Nemer8, Padma Chirumamilla9, Winifred R. Poster0, Steve Sawyer1, Ingrid Erickson2, Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi3, Ranjit Singh4, Chris Hesselbein5, Jessica Price6, Michael Lynch7, Elena Parmiggiani8, Eric Monteiro9, Doris Allhutter0, Brit Ross Winthereik1, James Maguire2, Laura Watts3, Carl DiSalvo4, Guillaume Latzko-Toth5, Johan Söderberg6, Florence Millerand7, Steve Jones8, Nick Seaver9, Marisa Leavitt Cohn0, Yanni Loukissas1, Daniel Cardoso Llach2, Anders Kristian Munk3, Axel Meunier4, Tommaso Venturini5, Juan Salamanca6, Mathieu Jacomy7 ...
    New perspectives on digital scholarship that speak to today's computational realitiesScholars across the humanities, social sciences, and information sciences are grappling with how best to study virtual environments, use computational tools in their research, and engage audiences with their results. Classic work in science and technology studies (STS) has played a central role in how these fields ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

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  • The Gold Standard

    The Challenge Of Evidence-Based Medicine

    by Stefan Timmermans, Marc Berg ...
    Few things make people react more strongly to the changes going on in health care than the word standardization. Critics shudder at the mindless sameness of standards, while supporters dream of a world in which standardized "best practices" open up a world of efficient health care delivery. The Gold Standard takes up this debate to investigate the real meaning of standardization and how it affects ... Read more

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  • Trans Medicine

    The Emergence and Practice of Treating Gender

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  • Data Paradoxes

    The Politics of Intensified Data Sourcing in Contemporary Healthcare

    by Klaus Hoeyer ...
    Why healthcare cannot—and should not—become data-driven, despite the many promises of intensified data sourcing.In contemporary healthcare, everybody seems to want more data, of higher quality, on more people, and to use this data for a wider range of purposes. In theory, such pervasive data collection should lead to a healthcare system in which data can quickly, efficiently, and unambiguously be ... Read more

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  • Designing and Conducting Gender, Sex, and Health Research

    Edited by John Oliffe, Lorraine J. Greaves ...
    This book is the first textbook dedicated to critically examining gender and sex in study designs, methods, and analysis in health research. In order to produce ethical, accurate, and effective research findings it is vital to integrate both sex (biological characteristics) and gender (socially constructed factors) into any health study. This book draws attention to some of the methodological ... Read more

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  • Neuroethics

    Anticipating the future

    Edited by Judy Illes ...
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  • Health, Science, and Place

    A New Model

    by Amy J. Blatt ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The main focus of this monograph is synthesizing the importance of geographic approaches to public health and patient care. The chapters are organized into four themed sections: the role of geography in health care reform; the geographies of human health; geospatial data and technologies; and geography in medicine. It is a highly informative book, providing scientific insight for geographers with ... Read more

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  • Personalized Medicine

    Empowered Patients in the 21st Century?

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    Series Book 7 - Biopolitics
    Inside today's data-driven personalized medicine, and the time, effort, and information required from patients to make it a realityMedicine has been personal long before the concept of “personalized medicine” became popular. Health professionals have always taken into consideration the individual characteristics of their patients when diagnosing, and treating them. Patients have cared for ... Read more

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  • Health Literacy in Primary Care

    A Clinician's Guide

    by Gloria G. Mayer, RN, EdD, FAAN, Michael Villaire, MSLM ...
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