Keywords:
Medical instruments and apparatus -- History.
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Electronic books.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (295 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780230286405
Series Statement:
Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=736285
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- 1 Introduction: Devices, Designs and the History of Technology in Medicine -- Part I: Technical Innovation and the Emerging Economies of Modern Medicine -- 2 Bones in Lancashire: Towards Long-term Contextual Analysis of Medical Technology -- 3 Mechanizing Medicine: Medical Innovations and the Birmingham Voluntary Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century -- 4 Private Laboratories and Medical Expertise in Boston Circa 1900 -- 5 Innovating Expertise: X-ray and Laboratory Workers in the Canadian Hospital, 1920-1950 -- Part II: Context, Contingency and the Life Stories of Technologies -- 6 Artificial Eyes and the Artificialization of the Human Face -- 7 Biotronik: 40 Years of German Entrepreneurship in Medical Technology -- 8 Building Science-based Medicine at Stanford: Henry Kaplan and the Medical Linear Accelerator, 1948-1975 -- 9 Hexamethonium, Hypertension and Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Transformation of an Experimental Drug in Post-war Britain -- 10 Greenhouses and Body Suits: The Challenge to Knowledge in Early Hip Replacement Surgery 1960-1982 -- Part III: Expectations, Outcomes and Endpoints -- 11 From Epidemic to Scandal: the Politicization of Antibiotic Resistance, 1957-1969 -- 12 Cancer Clinical Trials and the Transfer of Medical Knowledge: Metrology, Contestation and Local Practice -- 13 'The Best Bones in the Graveyard': Risky Technologies and Risks in Knowledge -- 14 The Politics of Endpoints -- Index.
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