TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reiser,Stanley Joel
TI  - Technological medicine: the changing world of doctors and patients 
SN  - 9780521835695 (hardback)
AV  - RA418.5.M4 R45 2009
U1  - 610.28/4 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Medical innovations
KW  - Medical technology
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy1001/2009010914.html
ER  -