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Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients
Author
Title
Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.
ISBN
9780521835695 (hardback)
0521835690 (hardback)
Published
New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 06, 2009
Bibliography
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.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Biomedical Technology - trends.
Biomedical Technology - history.
History, Modern 1601-
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