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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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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Devices, Designs and the History of Technology in Medicine
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Technical Innovation and the Emerging Economies of Modern Medicine
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Context, Contingency and the Life Stories of Technologies
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Expectations, Outcomes and Endpoints
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Reviews
'An excellent introduction to current historical approaches and subjects in the continuing interaction of medicine and technology.' - Susan E. Lederer, The British Journal for the History of Science
'This is a rich collection with many satisfying and thought-provoking articles that should engage not just historians interested in technology but anyone concerned with modern medicine, its origins and implications.' - Jane Seymour, Wellcome History
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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 HIDEFJÄLL 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 LÉCUYER 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
SALLYWYATT Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Devices and Designs
Book Subtitle: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective
Editors: Carsten Timmermann, Julie Anderson
Series Title: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230286405
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4039-8644-3Published: 31 October 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-54091-4Published: 31 October 2006
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-28640-5Published: 31 October 2006
Series ISSN: 2946-9643
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 284
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History, History of Medicine, Modern History