Health technology development and use : from practice-bound imagination to evolving impacts / by Sampsa Hyysalo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyysalo, Sampsa, 1974-

Series:

Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations ; 7.

Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (355 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do development and use of new technology relate? How can users contribute to innovation? This volume is the first to study these questions by following particular technologies over several product launches in detail. It examines the emergence of inventive ideas about future technology and uses, how these are developed into products and embedded in health care practices, and how the form and impact of these technologies then evolves through several rounds of design and deployment across different types of organizations. Examining these processes through three case studies of healt

Contents:

From markets to social learning : mapping the dynamics of design, use, and early evolution of new technology

Biography of technologies and practices : studying technology across time and space

The birth of the user : community and imagination

The anticipation of need : investigations and intermediaries

Visions in matter : invention and erosion

Nurturing technology : enactment and impact

The post-launch change : learning and reconfiguring

Diabetes databases : co-design, its evolution, and power relations

Telechemistry : radical innovation, deviance, and path formation

Conclusions : findings and theorizing

Implications : policy, evaluation, and development practice.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-306) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-95337-X

1-282-58617-3

9786612586170

0-203-84915-9

9780203849156

OCLC:

630539319