Misunderstanding science?: Disembodied knowledge? Making sense of medical science

摘要: The cloth of meaning may have to be woven out a myriad scraps and off cuts, but it is, day after day, year year. This chapter addresses the issue public understandings science through study ways patients with genetic metabolic disorder make sense medical sciences they encounter. is ‘peculiarly scientific’ in that although strongly associated premature death from cardiac arrest, does not itself produce obvious, subjectively discerned symptoms. Indeed, as far patient, most probably his or her general practitioner, are concerned, even those external indicators present unlikely seen significant. Thus prior onset coronary heart disease and/or attack, no embodied presence daily life individual; instead called into existence laboratory indicators, by blood sample raised levels lipids (blood fats). As concerned human health, medicine has played crucial role representing technology establishing their authority status contemporary society. While sociology debated sociological value studying whose medically defined, few studies directly explored patients' interpretations itself. For social scientists interested understanding science, such an abstract ‘disembodied’ offer rich point inquiry.