Innovations in health and medicine : diffusion and resistance in the twentieth century /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stanton, Jennifer, 1950-
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on theory and practice / Jennifer Stanton
  • The effects of local context on the development of obstetric ultrasound scanning in two Scottish hospitals / Debbie Nicholson
  • Organization, ethnicity and the British National Health Service / Helen Valier and Roberta Bivins
  • The Western mode of nursing evangelized? Nursing professionalism in twentieth-century Japan / Aya Takahashi
  • Acupuncture and innnovation : 'New Age' medicine in the NHS / Roberta Bivins
  • Degrees of control : the spread of operative fracture treatment with metal implants : a comparative perspective on Switzerland, East Germany and the USA, 1950s-1990s / Thomas Schlich
  • Representing medicine : innovation and resistance in 1950s Britain / Kelly Loughlin
  • The diffusion of two renal dialysis modalities in the UK, 1960s-1980s / Jennifer Stanton
  • Midwifery re-innovation in New Zealand / Philippa Mein Smith
  • French response to 'innovation' : the return of the living donor in organ transplantation / Martine Gabolde and Anne Marie Moulin.