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Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0415243858
Innovations in Health and Medicine: Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine)
This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Medical books Innovations in Health and Medicine. Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology.
The collection features issues such as control and compliance, professional power and economic constraint, cultural divides, 'configured users' and ingenuity. The introductory essay relates the collection to history and sociology of innovation and technology, asking 'what is distinctive about medicine and health?' Explorations of recent cases, along with deeper probing of the past century, call into question how the past relates to the future. Health policy makers and analysts, practitioners, users and historians will find the editor's claims for the uses of history provocative Medical books Diffusion and Use of Genomic Innovations in Health and Medicine: Workshop Summary. Categories: Genomics, Genomics->Technological innovations, Medical genetics. Contributors: Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health - Author. Format: Paperback
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Categories: Genomics, Genomics->Technological innovations, Medical genetics. Contributors: Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health - Author. Format: Paperback
Categories: Genomics, Genomics->Technological innovations, Medical genetics. Contributors: Roundtable on Translating Genomic-Based Research for Health - Author. Format: Paperback
Categories: Medical innovations->History, Medicine->History, Medical technology. Contributors: Jenny Stanton - Editor. Format: NOOK Book
Innovations in Health and Medicine Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century, ISBN-13: 9780415243858, ISBN-10: 0415243858
Medical Book Innovations in Health and Medicine
Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology.
The collection features issues such as control and compliance, professional power and economic constraint, cultural divides, 'configured users' and ingenuity. The introductory essay relates the collection to history and sociology of innovation and technology, asking 'what is distinctive about medicine and health?' Explorations of recent cases, along with deeper probing of the past century, call into question how the past relates to the future. Health policy makers and analysts, practitioners, users and historians will find the editor's claims for the uses of history provocative.
With its emphasis on clarity of writing, its mix of empirical details and analysis, and its rich bibliography, this volume offers rewards to academic and health service readers alike.
