The image and the reality
Subtitle: a case-study of the impacts of medical technology
By: Barbara Stocking and Stuart L. Morrison.
Contributors: Morrison, Stuart L., joint author.
Publisher: Published for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust by the Oxford University Press
Published: 1978
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
Subjects: Tomography; Tomography -- Economic aspects -- Great Britain
Description: A study which casts doubts on the present arrangements for correlating cost-benefit assessments with technological advances. It argues that some technologies in the future will be so costly in relation to benefits that society will be forced to renounce them.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 79-80.