Technological Medicine The Changing World of Doctors and Patients

Name: Technological Medicine The Changing World of Doctors and Patients
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ISBN: 9780521835695

ISBN-10: 0521835690

ISBN-13: 9780521835695

Edition: 2009

Authors: Stanley Joel Reiser

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This book explores how the technologies of medicine are created; how society, patients, and practitioners respond to the problems and successes of their use; and how this response changes them. For, as we create technology and strive to apply its powers, it recreates us.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/24/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Size: 6.30" wide x 9.25" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English




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