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Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.
Van Pelt Library RA418.5.M4 R45 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Reiser, Stanley Joel.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical innovations.
- Medical technology.
- Biomedical Technology--trends.
- Biomedical Technology--history.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biomedical Technology--trends.
- Biomedical Technology--history.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 229 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521835695
- 0521835690
- OCLC:
- 316421100
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