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Bone mineral density (BMD) testing : who needs it? who wants it?

Kazanjian, Arminée, 1947-; Green, C. J. (Carolyn Joanne), 1956-; Bassett, Kenneth, 1952-

British Columbia Office of Health Technology Assessment (BCOHTA)

This paper takes a critical approach to health technology assessment. Such an approach makes central the social, economic and political contexts in which health technologies are embedded. The task of this paper is to make explicit the hidden assumptions about aging women's bodies that drive the use of BMD testing. Primarily, it challenges the medical model of the aging female body as a diseased body, and questions the use of marketing strategies which create and capitalize on women's fear of aging. Finally, the paper raises questions about the ethical implications of proliferating technologies for economic and political motives at the expense of women's own needs and interests.

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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

10.14288/1.0045270

Family Practice, Department of; Medicine, Faculty of; Population and Public Health (SPPH), School of

Faculty; Researcher

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