Reiser, Stanley Joel. <br/><br/>
Technological medicine :  the changing world of doctors and patients / 
Stanley Joel Reiser. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2009. 
 - xv, 229 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521835695 (hardback) 0521835690 (hardback) 40017113665 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009010914 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA967208  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101498980  DNLM 015307599  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical innovations.<br/>Medical technology.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA418.5.M4  / R45 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.28/4