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Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective
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Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective Hardcover - 2006 - 1st Edition

by C. Timmermann (Editor); J. Anderson (Editor)


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In this volume, leading scholars in the history and sociology of medicine focus their attention on the material cultures of health care. They analyze how technology has become so central to medicine over the last two centuries and how we are coping with the consequences.

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  • Title Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective
  • Author C. Timmermann (Editor); J. Anderson (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, U.S.A.
  • Date 2006-10-31
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9781403986443 / 1403986444
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.77 x 7.16 x 0.82 in (22.28 x 18.19 x 2.08 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Biomedical Technology - instrumentation, Medical technology - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006047611
  • Dewey Decimal Code 610.28

About the author

STUART BLUME Professor of Science Dynamics in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands ROBERT BUD Principal Curator of Medicine at the London Science Museum, UK CHRISTOPHER CRENNER Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of the History and Philosophy of Medicine and Internal Medicine at the University of Kansas School of Medicine, USA NEIL HANDLEY Curator of the British Optical Association Museum at the College of Optometrists in London, UK FLIS HENSWOOD Reader in Social Informatics at the University of Brighton, UK PATRIK HIDEFJLL Marketing Director, Gothia Medical THOMAS P. HUGHES Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA GERALD KUTCHER Dean's Professor of the History of Medicine, The State University of New York, Binghamton, USA CHRISTOPHE LCUYER Research Historian and Program Manager at the Chemical Heritage Foundation JOHN V. PICKSTONE Research Professor in the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester, UK JONATHAN REINARZ Lecturer at the Centre for the History of Medicine at Birmingham Medical School, UK PETER L. TWOHIG Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada TAKAHIRO UEYAMA Professor in the Faculty of Economics at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan SALLY WYATT Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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