Examining the complex dynamics of medical treatment options and the variable character of surgical technologies, this volume broadens and transcends the notion of technological innovation. Surgery is an ideal field for examining the processes of technological change in medicine. The contributors to this book go beyond the concept of innovation, with its focus on a single technology and its sharp dichotomy of acceptance versus rejection. Instead they explore the historical contexts of change in surgery, looking at the complex dynamics of the various treatment options available -- old and new, surgical and nonsurgical -- as well as the variable character of the new technologies themselves, thus broadening and transcending the notion of technological innovation. CONTRIBUTORS: Christopher Crenner, Sally Frampton, Delia Gavrus, Lisa Haushofer, David S. Jones, Beth Linker, Shelley McKellar, Thomas Schlich Thomas Schlich is the James McGill Professor of the History of Medicine at the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University. Christopher Crenner is the RalphMajor and Robert Hudson Professor and chair of the Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

About the Author
CHRISTOPHER CRENNER is Professor and Chair of History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center.

Reviews
[T]he editors usefully introduce newer historiographical and sociological studies and models that treat innovations as rather more than the light bulb moment. They particularly stress how successful innovations should be studied in the context of their rejected alternatives. Anyone interested in the subject should add it to their bibliography. * BULLETIN OF THE HISTORY OF MEDICINE *



Book Information
ISBN 9781580465946
Author Thomas Schlich
Format Hardback
Page Count 244
Imprint University of Rochester Press
Publisher Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Weight(grams) 1g