Medicine and the Reign of Technology

Authors:

Stanley Joel Reiser

Brand: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521282239

188.94 zł

170.04 zł Save 18.90 zł Tax included

Lowest price within 30 days before promotion: 170.04 zł

Quantity

Available in 4-6 weeks

Delivery policy

Choose Paczkomat Inpost, Orlen Paczka, DPD or Poczta Polska. Click for more details

Security policy

Pay with a quick bank transfer, payment card or cash on delivery. Click for more details

Return policy

If you are a consumer, you can return the goods within 14 days. Click for more details

Description

Based chiefly on material from primary sources, this book describes some technological advances made in the art and practice of medicine during the past three centuries and shows how these advances have altered the methods of diagnosing illness.

Product Details

Brand Cambridge University Press

Reference 97206

EAN13 9780521282239

ISBN 9780521282239

Data sheet

Publication date: 1981
Issue number: 1
Cover: paperback
Pages count: 332
Dimensions (mm): 152.00 x 228.00
Weight (g): 452

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Examination of the patient in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; 2. The stethoscope and the detection of pathology by sound; 3. Visual technology and the anatomization of the living; 4. The microscope and the revelation of a cellular universe; 5. The translation of physiological actions into the languages of machines; 6. Chemical signposts of disease and the birth of the diagnostic laboratory; 7. Medical specialism and the centralization of medical care; 8. The shortcomings of technology in medical decision making; 9. Selection and evaluation of evidence in medicine; 10. Telecommunication, automation, and medical practice; 11. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.