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Author : Stanley Joel Reiser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0521282233
This book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries.
Author : Stanley J. Reiser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:315115591
Author : Stanley Joel Reiser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107661234
Advances in medicine have brought us the stethoscope, artificial kidneys, and computerized health records. They have also changed the doctor-patient relationship. This book explores how the technologies of medicine are created and how we respond to the problems and successes of their use. Stanley Joel Reiser, MD, walks us through the ways medical innovations exert their influence by discussing a number of selected technologies, including the X-ray, ultrasound, and respirator. Reiser creates a new understanding of thinking about how health care is practiced in the United States and thereby suggests new methods to effectively meet the challenges of living with technological medicine. As healthcare reform continues to be an intensely debated topic in America, Technological Medicine shows us the pros and cons of applying technological solutions health and illness.
Author : C. Timmermann,J. Anderson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230286405
In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze how technology has become so central to medicine over the last two centuries and how we are coping with the consequences.
Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134263011
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author : Thomas R. Cole,Nathan S. Carlin,Ronald A. Carson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107015623
This textbook uses concepts and methods of the humanities to enhance understanding of medicine and health care.
Author : Ian Robinson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Medical ethics
ISBN : 0719035902
The proceedings of a colloquium at Brunel, the University of West London, at which British, American, Canadian, and Australian scholars and practitioners of specialized fields reflect on how developments at the frontiers of medicine are challenging conventional ideas about when life begins and ends, and about the possibilities between. The 16 papers go beyond the ethical dilemmas for individuals to consider how high technology medicine is changing our understanding of the nature of kinship, social life, and cultural identity through such practices as the new genetics and organ transplants. Distributed by St. Martin's. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Eliezer Geisler,Ori Heller
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781461555193
This is the second book in the series of books that we edit on the Management of Medical Technology (MMT) published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. The fIrst book Managing Technology in Health Care offered a broad-brushed view of the topics involved in the new and exciting area of MMT that we have launched. A group of distinguished scholars contributed to the fIrst book. While working on the first book in the series, and on a variety of articles in MMT, we began to realize that there is an urgent need for a comprehensive and highly focused book which will introduce and define the area of MMT. In addition, we had just completed the two studies of MMT in American hospitals, and had a magnificent database fully analyzed. With three months left in the first author's sabbatical, and thanks to the encouragement from our editor at Kluwer, Gary Folven, we took to the task of writing this book. The merging in this book of the description of a new intellectual space, and the write-up of the results from our MMT studies have created a unique blend of very attractive reading material. The reader will find this book to be a fascinating adventure into a newly-created area of intellectual endeavor, coupled with fIndings about how the health care delivery system manages teclUlology. Regardless of the reader's background, this book will certainly be of interest, as it links the medical and business frameworks.
Author : Janet Zhun Nassif
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:841092247
Author : Ian Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350307544
This introductory textbook presents medical history as a theoretically rich discipline, one that constantly engages with major social questions about ethics, bodies, state power, disease, public health and mental disorder. Providing both instructors and students with an account of the changing nature of medical history research since it first emerged as a distinct discipline in 19th century Germany, this essential guide covers the theoretical development of medical history and evaluates the various approaches adopted by doctors, historians and sociologists. Synthesising historiographical material ranging from the 19th to 21st centuries, this is an ideal resource for postgraduate students from History and History of Medicine degrees taking courses on historiography, the theory of history and medical history.
Author : Jonathan Sterne
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003-02-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0822384256
The Audible Past explores the cultural origins of sound reproduction. It describes a distinctive sound culture that gave birth to the sound recording and the transmission devices so ubiquitous in modern life. With an ear for the unexpected, scholar and musician Jonathan Sterne uses the technological and cultural precursors of telephony, phonography, and radio as an entry point into a history of sound in its own right. Sterne studies the constantly shifting boundary between phenomena organized as "sound" and "not sound." In The Audible Past, this history crisscrosses the liminal regions between bodies and machines, originals and copies, nature and culture, and life and death. Blending cultural studies and the history of communication technology, Sterne follows modern sound technologies back through a historical labyrinth. Along the way, he encounters capitalists and inventors, musicians and philosophers, embalmers and grave robbers, doctors and patients, deaf children and their teachers, professionals and hobbyists, folklorists and tribal singers. The Audible Past tracks the connections between the history of sound and the defining features of modernity: from developments in medicine, physics, and philosophy to the tumultuous shifts of industrial capitalism, colonialism, urbanization, modern technology, and the rise of a new middle class. A provocative history of sound, The Audible Past challenges theoretical commonplaces such as the philosophical privilege of the speaking subject, the visual bias in theories of modernity, and static descriptions of nature. It will interest those in cultural studies, media and communication studies, the new musicology, and the history of technology.
Author : John Dewey,Julius A. Sigler
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Science
ISBN : 0761808353
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Author : Sonia Olin Lauritzen,Lars-Christer Hyden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134219988
Although the use of new health technologies in healthcare and medicine is generally seen as beneficial, there has been little analysis of the impact of such technologies on people’s lives and understandings of health and illness. This ground-breaking book explores how new technologies not only provide hope for cure and well-being, but also introduce new ethical dilemmas and raise questions about the 'natural' body. Focusing on the ways new health technologies intervene into our lives and affect our ideas about normalcy, the body and identity, Medical Technologies and the Life World explores: how new health technologies are understood by lay people and patients how the outcomes of these technologies are communicated in various clinical settings how these technologies can alter our notions of health and illness and create ‘new illness’. Written by authors with differing backgrounds in phenomenology, social psychology, social anthropology, communication studies and the nursing sciences, this sensational text is essential reading for students and academics of medical sociology, health and allied studies, and anyone with an interest in new health technologies.
Author : Aleksandra Loewenau
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527523753
The Proceedings of the Calgary History of Medicine Days represent a series of volumes in the history of medicine and healthcare that publishes the work of young and emerging researchers in the field, hence providing a unique publishing format. The annual Calgary History of Medicine Days Conference, established in 1991, brings together undergraduate and early graduate students from across Canada, the USA, the UK, and Europe to give paper and poster presentations on a wide variety of topics from the history of medicine and healthcare from an interdisciplinary perspective. The History of Medicine Days offers an annual platform for discussions and exchanges between participants over recent research findings, methodological perspectives, or work-in-progress descriptions of ongoing historiographical projects. This book brings together a number of reviewed and edited conference papers, comprising topics from historical medical classics, physicianship and the doctor’s role, military medicine, and disfigured bodies in anatomical and media perspectives. In addition, it includes the papers given by the conference’s internationally renowned keynote speaker, Dr Guel Russel. It further comprises all of the abstracts of the conference for documentation purposes and is well illustrated with diagrams and images pertaining to the history of medicine.
Author : Francisco Ortega
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135143190
"Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture engages the confusions and contradictions in current attitudes to, and practices of, the body. On the one hand, the body is where we turn for the certainties of nature; yet, on the other, it is the locus of a desire for permanent transformation and for constant reinvention. The body is at the same time worshipped and despised: so that now it has come to constitute not just an object of desire, but an object of design. Addressing practices of corporeal ascesis- such as bodybuilding and dietetics - medical technologies - such as plastic surgery, prosthetics, and pharmacological interventions - and radical anatomical modifications- such as voluntary amputations, Francisco Ortega analyses how the body has become a screen for the projection of our ideas and imaginings about ourselves; and has also been turned into an object of suspicion, fear, anxiety, insecurity and discomfort. From the disembodied ideal of the digital purity of models - in which every little piece of fat is digitally eliminated - through the disembodiment implicit in social constructivist rejections of materiality, to the various projects of virtual reality, artificial intelligence, and posthumanism, Corporeality, Medical Technologies and Contemporary Culture documents the ambiguous legacy of a western theoretical tradition that has always despised the body"--