Sociology of Medical Screening

Natalie Armstrong is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester. A medical sociologist, Dr. Armstrong has previously held research posts at the University of Warwick and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.Helen Eborall is lecturer in Social Science Applied to Health at the University of Leicester, having previously worked as a research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

• Notes on Contributors vii1 The sociology of medical screening: past, present and future 1Natalie Armstrong and Helen Eborall2 Screening: mapping medicine’s temporal spaces 17David Armstrong3 The experience of risk as ‘measured vulnerability’: health screening and lay uses of numerical risk 33Chris Gillespie4 Expanded newborn screening: articulating the ontology of diseases with bridging work in the clinic 47Stefan Timmermans and Mara Buchbinder5 Resisting the screening imperative: patienthood, populations and politics in prostate cancer detection technologies for the UK 60Alex Faulkner6 A molecular monopoly? HPV testing, the Pap smear and the molecularisation of cervical cancer screening in the USA 73Stuart Hogarth, Michael M. Hopkins and Victor Rodriguez7 Blind spots and adverse conditions of care: screening migrants for tuberculosis in France and Germany 90Janina Kehr8 ‘Let’s have it tested first’: choice and circumstances in decision-making following positive antenatal screening in Hong Kong 105Alison Pilnick and Olga Zayts9 Representing and intervening: ‘doing’ good care in fi rst trimester prenatal knowledge production and decision-making 121Nete Schwennesen and Lene Koch10 ‘Wakey wakey baby’: narrating four-dimensional (4D) bonding scans 136Julie RobertsIndex 151