Examining the complex dynamics of medical treatment options and the variable character of surgical technologies, this volume broadens and transcends the notion of technological innovation.
Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the historical contexts of change in surgery, looking at the complex dynamics of the various treatment options available — old and new, surgical and nonsurgical — as well as the variable character of the new technologies themselves, thus broadening and transcending the notion of technological innovation.
CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Crenner, Sally Frampton, Delia Gavrus, Lisa Haushofer, David S. Jones, Beth Linker, Shelley Mc Kellar, Thomas Schlich
Thomas Schlich is the James Mc Gill Professor of the History of Medicine at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at Mc Gill University. Christopher Crenner is the Ralph Major and Robert Hudson Professor and chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the historical contexts of change in surgery, looking at the complex dynamics of the various treatment options available — old and new, surgical and nonsurgical — as well as the variable character of the new technologies themselves, thus broadening and transcending the notion of technological innovation.
CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Crenner, Sally Frampton, Delia Gavrus, Lisa Haushofer, David S. Jones, Beth Linker, Shelley Mc Kellar, Thomas Schlich
Thomas Schlich is the James Mc Gill Professor of the History of Medicine at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at Mc Gill University. Christopher Crenner is the Ralph Major and Robert Hudson Professor and chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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Table of Content
Technological Change in Surgery: An Introductory EssayInimitable Innovation: Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and the Renewal of Surgery, 1822-1847
Defining Difference: Competing Forms of Ovarian Surgery in the Nineteenth Century
‘Making Bad Boys Good’: Brain Surgery and the Juvenile Court in Progressive Era America
Prosthetic Imaginaries: Spinal Surgery and Innovation from the Patient’s Perspective
Disruptive Potential: The ‘Landmark’ REMATCH Trial, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Technology, and the Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure in the United States
Placebos and the Progress of Surgery
Surgical Practice and the Reconstruction of the Therapeutic Niche: The Case of Myocardial Revascularization
Bibliography of Secondary Sources
List of Contributors
Index
About the author
CHRISTOPHER CRENNER is Professor and Chair of History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center.Buy this ebook and get 1 more FREE!
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 244 ● ISBN 9781787440029 ● File size 6.7 MB ● Editor Thomas Schlich & Christopher Crenner ● Publisher Boydell & Brewer ● City Rochester ● Country US ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5220964 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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