Sleep, Health and the Dynamics of Biomedicine  

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Moreira, Tiago

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Social Science & Medicine (www.elsevier.com/locate/sosscimed) vol. 63 no. 1 (Jul. 2006), page 54-63.
Topik: health; sleep medicine; obstructive sleep apnoea; continoues positive airways pressure; medicalisation; biomedical knowledge

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: SS53.5 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This paper examines the relationship between sleep and health from a sociological perspective. Two interrelated case studies are explored, the emergence of the category of obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome, nowadays the most commonly diagnosed sleep disorfer, and the shaping of continuous positive airway pressure, the therapy if choice for sleep apnoea in contemporary clinical practice. Data were gathered through a historical review of relevant literature and observation of online patient discussion groups. The examples analysed show that although the social organisation of the relationship between sleep and health can be understiid as a process of medicalisation, this framework is insufficient for understanding how researchers, clinicians and patients interactively deploy the knowledge, techniques and technologies through which contestation and divergence within biomedicine it is possible to initiate a re evaluation of the role of patients' identity in the transformation of sleep medicine and associated health technologies.

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