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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 848

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Author: Christopher Lawrence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195109047
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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This book sheds new light on orthodox medicine and medical science in the interwar years. It challenges the accepted story that medicine in the twentieth century was subject to icreasing reductionism and shows instead that there was a holistic turn in the medical sciences and clinical practice that challenged reductionism and medical specialization.

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1440

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2076

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Author: David J. Rothman
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 0202369323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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This study of the transformation of the relationship between doctors and patients from the mid-Sixties to the mid-Seventies has acquired the status of a minor classic. In this paperback edition the author has added an afterword on patient autonomy that encompasses some more recent changes in the practice of medicine and the evolving field loosely, but inexactly, characterized as bioethics. He has left intact his portrayal of the earlier, epochal changes that are the subject of the book.

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Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Category : Microforms
Languages : en
Pages : 1012

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Author: Kirk Jeffrey
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801876168
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines—small computers, in fact—deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry. Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as they invent and test a variety of electronic devices. Numerous small manufacturing firms jumped into pacemaker production but eventually fell by the wayside, leaving only three American companies in the business today. Jeffrey profiles pioneering heart surgeons, inventors from the realms of engineering and medical research, and business leaders who built heart-rhythm management into an industry with thousands of employees and annual revenues in the hundreds of millions. As Jeffrey shows, the pacemaker (first implanted in 1958) and the ICD (1980) embody a paradox of high-tech health care: these technologies are effective and reliable but add billions to the nation's medical bill because of the huge growth in the number of patients who depend on implanted devices to manage their heartbeats.