Technological medicine : the changing world of doctors and patients / Stanley Joel Reiser.
Publication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.Description: xv, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780521835695 (hardback)
- 0521835690 (hardback)
- 40017113665
- 610.28/4 22
- RA418.5.M4 R45 2009
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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.