Innovations in Health and Medicine - Diffusion and Resistance in the Twentieth Century

List of contents

Introduction, Jennifer Stanton; Part 1 Close neighbours; Chapter 1, Debbie Nicholson; Chapter 2 Organization, ethnicity and the British National Health Service, Helen Valier, Roberta Bivins; Part 2 Across nations; Chapter 3 The Western mode of nursing evangelized?, Aya Takahashi; Chapter 4 Acupuncture and innovation, Roberta Bivins; Chapter 5 Degrees of control: the spread of operative fracture treatment with metal implants, Thomas Schlich; Part 3 Re-innovation and the state; Chapter 6 Representing medicine, Kelly Loughlin; Chapter 7 The diffusion of two renal dialysis modalities in the UK, 1960s–1980s, Jennifer Stanton; Chapter 8 Midwifery re-innovation in New Zealand, Philippa Mein Smith; Chapter 9 French response to ‘innovation’, Martine Gabolde, Anne Marie Moulin;

About the author

Jennifer Stanton works with the History Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has published on the history of medical technologies, infectious disease research and policy, and African child health.

Summary

This volume brings together cutting edge research by a number of international historians. The collection features issues such as control and compliance, professional power, economic constraint and cultural divides.

Product details

• Assisted by: Jenny Stanton (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2002
• EAN: 9780415243858
• ISBN: 978-0-415-24385-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, History of Medicine, Social and cultural history