This consumer good could save your life: The defibrillator at home

摘要: In the UK, it has recently become possible for Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), a device that can treat heart attack, to be sold direct members of public, use at home. This is significant development, in so far as prefigures wider direction medical technology marketed consumers, rather than being mediated by profession or hospitals. Using insights from Science and Technology Studies, sociology consumption, this paper reports on qualitative study UK consumers who have bought an AED. The AED multiple meanings people one, displaying rich variety symbolic resonances, articulating ideas about community consumption