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Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century

Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel Elder (Editor), Thomas Schlich (Editor)Series:Social Histories of Medicine #59Publish date:2025-01-28Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526171146ISBN-10:1526171147UPC:9781526171146Book Category:Medical, History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:History, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCV6MCJEF4
This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patients' roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology has had a lasting effect on ways of being a patient.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Manchester University PressISBN-13:9781526171146ISBN-10:1526171147UPC:9781526171146Book Category:Medical, History, Technology & EngineeringBook Subcategory:History, ModernBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCV6MCJEF4

Rachel Elder is Research Associate in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University
Thomas Schlich is James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine and Department Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University


Publisher: Manchester University Press

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Rachel Elder (Editor), Thomas Schlich (Editor)

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