Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Rachel Elder, Thomas SchlichSeries:Social Histories of MedicinePublish date:2025-01-28Pages:264
Languages: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:1Product 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.
Languages: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:1Product 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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