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Author : Joseph D. Bronzino,M. Wade,Vincent H. Smith,Maurice L. Wade
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Medical economics
ISBN : 007008002X
Author : A. Faulkner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230228368
From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in innovating the technologies that shape health care.
Author : Nik Brown,Andrew Webster
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745627234
A critical introduction to the role and cultural significance of technological innovation in redefining the boundaries of medicine and the body, tracing this process through the figure of 'the lifecourse'.
Author : Andrew Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137095930
Examines a range of current innovative health technologies, exploring how far they change the boundaries between the body, health, technology relationship, and assessing the contribution a critical social science can make towards our understanding of this shift.
Author : Joseph D. Bronzino,Vincent H. Smith,Maurice L. Wade
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0262023008
A thought-provoking examination of medical technology and the social and moral issues surrounding it; for specialists and nonspecialists.
Author : Daniel Lee Kleiman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781405148191
This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it. Draws on concepts from political sociology, organizational analysis, and contemporary social theory. Avoids dense theoretical debate. Includes case studies and concluding chapter summaries for students and scholars.
Author : Susanne Brucksch,Kaori Sasaki
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813362802
This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima; patient security, end-of-life and high-tech medicine in hospitals; innovation and diffusion of medical technology; and the engineering and evaluating of novel devices in clinical trials. The individual chapters situate humans and devices in medical settings in their given semantic, pragmatic, institutional and historical context. A highly interdisciplinary approach offers deep insights beyond the manifold findings of each case study, thereby enriching academic discussions on socio-technical settings in medical contexts amongst affiliated disciplines. This volume will be of broad interest to scholars, practitioners, policy makers and students from various disciplines, including Science and Technology Studies (STS), medical humanities, social sciences, ethics and law, business and innovation studies, as well as biomedical engineering, medicine and public health.
Author : Andrew Webster,Sally Wyatt
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811543548
This book celebrates and captures examples of the excellent scholarship that Palgrave’s Health, Technology, and Society Series has published since 2006, and reflects on how the field has developed over this time. As a collection of readings drawn from twenty-two books, it is organized around five themes: Innovation, Responsibility, Locus of Care, Knowledge Production, and Regulation and Governance. Structured in this way, the book gives the reader a concise but nonetheless rich guide to the core issues and debates within the field. Complementing these narratives, the original authors have provided new reflection pieces on their texts and on their current work. This then is a book which in part looks back but also looks forward to emerging issues at the intersection of health, technology, and society. It uniquely encompasses and presents a range of expertise in a novel way that is both timely and accessible for students and others new to the field.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Council on Health Care Technology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1988-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309038294
For the first time, a single reference identifies medical technology assessment programs. A valuable guide to the field, this directory contains more than 60 profiles of programs that conduct and report on medical technology assessments. Each profile includes a listing of report citations for that program, and all the reports are indexed under major subject headings. Also included is a cross-listing of technology assessment report citations arranged by type of technology headings, brief descriptions of approximately 70 information sources of potential interest to technology assessors, and addresses and descriptions of 70 organizations with memberships, activities, publications, and other functions relevant to the medical technology assessment community.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309042864
The very rapid pace of advances in biomedical research promises us a wide range of new drugs, medical devices, and clinical procedures. The extent to which these discoveries will benefit the public, however, depends in large part on the methods we choose for developing and testing them. Modern Methods of Clinical Investigation focuses on strategies for clinical evaluation and their role in uncovering the actual benefits and risks of medical innovation. Essays explore differences in our current systems for evaluating drugs, medical devices, and clinical procedures; health insurance databases as a tool for assessing treatment outcomes; the role of the medical profession, the Food and Drug Administration, and industry in stimulating the use of evaluative methods; and more. This book will be of special interest to policymakers, regulators, executives in the medical industry, clinical researchers, and physicians.
Author : Rebecca Lynch,Conor Farrington
Publisher : Springer
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349952359
This book raises questions about the changing relationships between technology, people and health. It examines the accelerating pace of technological development and a general shift to personalized, patient-led medicine. Such relationships are increasingly mediated through particular medical technologies, drawn together by the authors as ‘personal medical devices’ (PMDs) – devices that are attached to, worn by, interacted with, or carried by individuals for the purposes of generating biomedical data and carrying out medical interventions on the person concerned. The burgeoning PMD field is advancing rapidly across multiple domains and disciplines – so rapidly that conceptual and empirical research and thinking around PMDs, and their clinical, social and philosophical implications, often lag behind new technical developments and medical interventions. This timely and original volume explores the significant and under-researched impact of personal medical devices on contemporary understandings of health and illness. It will be a valuable read for scholars and practitioners of medicine, health, science and technology and social science.
Author : A. Webster
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230506046
The first detailed and comprehensive analysis of the implications of new health technologies for society, the delivery of health care, and the very meaning of health itself. It is based on new, critical social science research integrated according to core themes, making it accessible and engaging to both students and researchers.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on Technological Innovation in Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309044912
Americans praise medical technology for saving lives and improving health. Yet, new technology is often cited as a key factor in skyrocketing medical costs. This volume, second in the Medical Innovation at the Crossroads series, examines how economic incentives for innovation are changing and what that means for the future of health care. Up-to-date with a wide variety of examples and case studies, this book explores how payment, patent, and regulatory policiesâ€"as well as the involvement of numerous government agenciesâ€"affect the introduction and use of new pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and surgical procedures. The volume also includes detailed comparisons of policies and patterns of technological innovation in Western Europe and Japan. This fact-filled and practical book will be of interest to economists, policymakers, health administrators, health care practitioners, and the concerned public.
Author : Frans F.H. Rutten,Stanley J. Reiser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783642727856
Technological development has created major possibilities for the treatment of disease and for the disabled. The cost of new technologies has added considerably to health care cost intlation, which still exceeds the growth rates of most national economies. The share of national resources devoted to health care is still rising, although at a lesser pace than in the seventies. -Therefore, the use of medical technology confronts us with some of the major dilemmas in society today. The routine and intensive use of technology has transformed the most basic interpersonal and social features of medicine. It has altered the means through which patient and doctor communicate about illness as well as the content of this communication, changed the doctor's relationship to medical colleagues by increasing his dependence on them, altered the place and form of practice by creating advantages for the centralization of medical care in complex organizations, and created for society new responsibilities and powers to influence the context and scope of medical practice.
Author : Gerhard Spekowius,Thomas Wendler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781402043840
Improving healthcare and staying healthy is one of the most discussed and important issues in our society. Technology has played and will play an important role in many aspects of the healthcare system, and it offers new and better ways to solve the key health problems of the new century. This book describes valued contributions of technology for improving hospital and home healthcare, and gives a perspective on how they will influence critical aspects of future medical care. It provides an overview and discussion of trends, presents the state-of-the-art of important research areas, and highlights recent breakthrough results in selected fields, giving an outlook on game-changing developments in the coming decades. The material is arranged in 6 parts and a total of 31 chapters. The healthcare areas addressed are: General advances and trends in healthcare technology, diagnostic imaging, integration of imaging and therapy, molecular medicine, medical information technology and personal healthcare.