Asia Friedman

Gebundenes Buch

Mammography Wars

Analyzing Attention in Cultural and Medical Disputes

Beschreibung

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. In Mammography Wars, sociologist Asia Friedman uses the sociology of attention to map the cognitive structure of the “mammography wars.”  

Autor

ASIA FRIEDMAN is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Delaware. Her first book, Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies (University of Chicago, 2013), won the 2016 Distinguished Book Award from the Sex and Gender section of the American Sociological Association.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781978830646
• ISBN-10: 1978830645
• Artikelnr.: 66407520