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Technological Change in Modern Surgery : Historical Perspectives on Innovation /
Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the historical contexts of...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Technological change in surgery: an introductory essay / Thomas Schlich and Christopher Crenner
- Inimitable innovation : Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and the renewal of surgery, 1822-1847 / Lisa Haushofer
- Defining difference : competing forms of ovarian surgery in the nineteenth century / Sally Frampton
- Making bad boys good? : brain surgery and the juvenile court in progressive era America / Delia Gavrus
- Prosthetic imaginaries : spinal surgery and innovation from the patient's perspective / Beth Linker
- Disruptive potential : the 'landmark' rematch trial, left ventricular assist device (LVAD) technology, and the surgical treatment of heart failure in the United States / Shelley McKellar
- Placebos and the progress of surgery / Christopher Crenner
- Surgical practice and the reconstruction of the therapeutic niche : the case of myocardial revascularization / David S. Jones.