Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Published on 27. February 1981
Book
Paperback/Softback
332 pages
978-0-521-28223-9 (ISBN)
Description
Based chiefly on material from primary sources, this book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries and shows how these advances have altered the methods of diagnosing illness.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
506 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-28223-9 (9780521282239)
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Stanley Joel Reiser
Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Book
04/1978
Cambridge University Press
€68.09
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Stanley Joel Reiser
Medicine and the Reign of Technology
Book
04/1978
Cambridge University Press
€68.09
Article exhausted; check for reprint
Content
List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Examination of the patient in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 2. The stethoscope and the detection of pathology by sound; 3. Visual technology and the anatomization of the living; 4. The microscope and the revelation of a cellular universe; 5. The translation of physiological actions into the languages of machines; 6. Chemical signposts of disease and the birth of the diagnostic laboratory; 7. Medical specialism and the centralization of medical care; 8. The shortcomings of technology in medical decision making; 9. Selection and evaluation of evidence in medicine; 10. Telecommunication, automation, and medical practice; 11. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.