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Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.

By: Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780521835695 (hardback)
  • 0521835690 (hardback)
  • 40017113665
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.28/4 22
LOC classification:
  • RA418.5.M4 R45 2009
Online resources:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks RA418.5 .M4 R45 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001160026

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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