Technology, health and the patient consumer in the twentieth century /

Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely explored by scholars. In this edited volume, the authors address this disconnect, noting the ways in which a variety of technologies have shaped patients�...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Walter de Gruyter & Co
Other Authors:	Elder, Rachel (Editor), Schlich, Thomas, 1962- (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2025. ©2025
Series:	Social histories of medicine ; . 59
Subjects:	Medical care. Patients. Medical technology. Health attitudes. Consumer satisfaction. Patient Care Patients Medical Laboratory Science Attitude to Health Consumer Behavior Soins médicaux. Technologie médicale. Attitudes à l'égard de la santé. Consommateurs > Satisfaction. patients. MEDICAL / History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Front Matter
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
I New technologies and patient markets
1 Dental X-rays and the imagined patient
2 Chronic neglect
3 Patients, 'consumer sovereignty', and technological change
II Informed patients and patient information
4 Tampons, technology, and toxic shock syndrome
5 Just stories
III Co-opting disease, promoting prevention and healing
6 Sunbeds, dihydroxyacetone (DHA) fake tan, and MelanoTan injections
7 Against 'prevention pills'
8 'Mental health is not fashion'
Index