Health Industrialization discusses the way healthcare professionals distinguish between medicine, surgery, and diet and lifestyle guidelines. In other words, the ways that medicine aims to provide quantity of life.
Men and women would rather remain in good health as long as possible and compensate for the deficiencies that crop up to the best of their abilities. Hence, they are looking for quality of life that results in tensions brought on by different objectives. This book hypothesizes that this tension is the cause of an industrialization of medicine or health that depends to a degree on the point-of-view we choose.
1. Introduction - p. xv 2. 1: Fixed Man, Enhanced Man, Transformed Man - p. 1 3. 2: The Necessary Industrialization of Medicine - p. 23 4. 3: Industrialization: its Obstacles and its Rules - p. 43 5. 4: Acceptability and Diffusion - p. 53 6. 5: The Dynamics of Diffusion - p. 71 7. 6: Digital Identity and Health - p. 81 8. 7: Access to Information, Access to Health - p. 95 9. 8: Mondialisation, the Maker of Biopower - p. 107 10. 9: Belief, Myth and Biopower - p. 117 11. 10: Trust - p. 139 12. 11: The Social Reality - p. 153 13. 12: The Technologies that Could Change Everything - p. 161 14. Conclusion - p. 185 15. Bibliography - p. 187 16. Index - p. 191
Health Industrialization discusses the way healthcare professionals distinguish between medicine, surgery, and diet and lifestyle guidelines. In other words, the ways that medicine aims to provide quantity of life.
Men and women would rather remain in good health as long as possible and compensate for the deficiencies that crop up to the best of their abilities. Hence, they are looking for quality of life that results in tensions brought on by different objectives. This book hypothesizes that this tension is the cause of an industrialization of medicine or health that depends to a degree on the point-of-view we choose.
1. Introduction - p. xv 2. 1: Fixed Man, Enhanced Man, Transformed Man - p. 1 3. 2: The Necessary Industrialization of Medicine - p. 23 4. 3: Industrialization: its Obstacles and its Rules - p. 43 5. 4: Acceptability and Diffusion - p. 53 6. 5: The Dynamics of Diffusion - p. 71 7. 6: Digital Identity and Health - p. 81 8. 7: Access to Information, Access to Health - p. 95 9. 8: Mondialisation, the Maker of Biopower - p. 107 10. 9: Belief, Myth and Biopower - p. 117 11. 10: Trust - p. 139 12. 11: The Social Reality - p. 153 13. 12: The Technologies that Could Change Everything - p. 161 14. Conclusion - p. 185 15. Bibliography - p. 187 16. Index - p. 191
