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Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients

Title
  1. Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.
Published by
  1. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Author
  1. Reiser, Stanley Joel

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Description
  1. xv, 229 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Medical innovations
  2. Biomedical Technology > history
  3. History, Modern 1601-
  4. Medical technology
  5. Biomedical Technology > trends
Contents
  1. 1. Revealing the body's whispers : how the stethoscope transformed medicine -- 2. Enigmatic pictures : how patients and doctors encountered the X-ray -- 3. Lifesaving but unaffordable : the improbable journey of the artificial kidney -- 4. Promising rescue, preventing release : the double edge of the artificial respirator -- 5. The quest to unify health care through the patient record -- 6. Putting technologies on trial : from bloodletting to antibiotics to the Oregon Initiative -- 7. Amid the technological triumphs of disease prevention : where is health? -- 8. The technological transformation of birth -- 9. Governing the empire of machines.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.