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" Technological medicine : "
Stanley Joel Reiser.
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BL
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583880
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GBA967208b413099
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| Main Entry
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Reiser, Stanley Joel.
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| Title & Author
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Technological medicine : : the changing world of doctors and patients /\ Stanley Joel Reiser.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 2009.
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xv, 229 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm.
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9780521835695 (hardback)
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: 0521835690 (hardback)
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: 1711366501
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: 9781711366500
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Revealing the body's whispers : how the stethoscope transformed medicine -- Enigmatic pictures : how patients and doctors encountered the X-ray -- Lifesaving but unaffordable : the improbable journey of the artificial kidney -- Promising rescue, preventing release : the double edge of the artificial respirator -- The quest to unify health care through the patient record -- Putting technologies on trial : from bloodletting to antibiotics to the Oregon initiative -- Amid the technological triumphs of disease prevention : where is health? -- The technological transformation of birth -- Governing the empire of machines.
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Medical innovations.
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Medical technology.
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Biomedical Technology-- trends.
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Biomedical Technology-- history.
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History, Modern 1601-
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| Dewey Classification
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610.28/4
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| LC Classification
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RA418.5.M4R45 2009
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2009 J-885
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W 82R377e 2009
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