Medical devices into healthcare
Subtitle: a political sociology of technology and governance
By: Alex Faulkner.
Series: Health, technology, and society
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230001718
Subjects: Medical instruments and apparatus -- Social aspects; Medical innovations -- Social aspects; Equipment and Supplies -- standards; Health Policy; Technology, Medical -- standards
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Innovation, evidence, and governance of medical technology; title: Approaching technology; title: The world of medical devices; title: Artificial hips : the surveillance of success; title: The PSA test for prostate cancer : risk constructs governance?; title: Infusion pumps : usership and the governance of error; title: Coagulometers : healthcare governance at home; title: Device or drug? : governation of tissue-engineering; title: Devising healthcare and society.