Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients
- Title
- Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.
- Published by
- New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xv, 229 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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
- Columbia University Libraries
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.