Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.

  • Reiser, Stanley Joel.
Date:
2009
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About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Physical description

xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Revealing the body's whispers : how the stethoscope transformed medicine -- Enigmatic pictures : how patients and doctors encountered the X-ray -- Lifesaving but unaffordable : the improbable journey of the artificial kidney -- Promising rescue, preventing release : the double edge of the artificial respirator -- The quest to unify health care through the patient record -- Putting technologies on trial : from bloodletting to antibiotics to the Oregon initiative -- Amid the technological triumphs of disease prevention : where is health? -- The technological transformation of birth -- Governing the empire of machines.

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    History of Medicine
    AC /REI
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ISBN

  • 9780521835695
  • 0521835690
  • 1711366501
  • 9781711366500