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Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective
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In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze how technology has become so central to medicine over the last two centuries and how we are coping with the consequences.
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Additional ISBN/GTIN9780230286405
Product TypeE-book
BindingE-book
FormatPDF
Format notewatermark
Publishing date31/10/2006
Edition2006
SeriesScience, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
Pages284 pages
LanguageEnglish
IllustrationsXIV, 284 p. 5 illus.
Article no.3069438
CatalogsVC
Data source no.917426
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STUART BLUME Professor of Science Dynamics in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ROBERT BUD Principal Curator of Medicine at the London Science Museum, UKCHRISTOPHER CRENNER Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, USANEIL HANDLEY Curator of the British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists in London, UKFLIS HENSWOOD Reader in Social Informatics at the University of Brighton, UKPATRIK HIDEFJÄLL Marketing Director, Gothia MedicalTHOMAS P. HUGHES Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAGERALD KUTCHER Dean's Professor of the History of Medicine, The State University of New York, Binghamton, USACHRISTOPHE LÉCUYER Research Historian and Program Manager at the Chemical Heritage FoundationJOHN V. PICKSTONE Research Professor in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester, UK JONATHAN REINARZ Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Medicine at Birmingham Medical School, UKPETER L. TWOHIG Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, CanadaTAKAHIRO UEYAMA Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan SALLYWYATT Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands