An empire of machines
Subtitle: the rise and consequences of technological medicine
By: Stanley Joel Reiser.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780521835695
Subjects: Medical innovations; Medical technology; Biomedical Technology -- trends; Biomedical Technology -- history; History, Modern 1601-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Revealing the body's whispers : how the stethoscope transformed medicine; title: Enigmatic pictures : how patients and doctors encountered the x-ray; title: Life-saving but unaffordable : the improbable journey of the artificial kidney; title: Promising rescue, preventing release : the double edge of the artificial respirator; title: The quest to unify health care through the patient record; title: Putting technologies on trial : from bloodletting to antibiotics to the Oregon initiative; title: Amid the technological triumphs of disease prevention; title: where is health?; title: The technological transformation of birth; title: Governing the empire of machines.