Recent changes in healthcare delivery as mandated by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act are forcing providers to focus on technology as a way to improve the health of the population, while engaging patients and encouraging them to take accountability for maintaining …
Technology and medical practice: blood, guts and machines
by Berner, Boel, Johnson, Ericka
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Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technol…
Modern technology has changed the way we live, work, play, communicate, fight, love, and die. Yet few works have systematically explored these changes in light of their implications for individual and social welfare. How can we conceptualize and evaluate the influence of technol…
Care and Technology: An Anthropological Question -- Technology and Life: Analysis of a Divorce -- The Conditions of Care in Technology -- Design, Technology and Life -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Interdisciplinarity, Science and Humanities.
What happened that changed the priest--the revered healer of antiquity--into a person of science? How was the modern doctor made? Physician Rajeev Kurapati's earnest attempt to answer this question and others central to the practice of medicine. For instance, how have the advanc…
What happened that changed the priest--the revered healer of antiquity--into a person of science? How was the modern doctor made? Physician Rajeev Kurapati's earnest attempt to answer this question and others central to the practice of medicine. For instance, how have the advanc…
What happened that changed the priest--the revered healer of antiquity--into a person of science? How was the modern doctor made? Physician Rajeev Kurapati's earnest attempt to answer this question and others central to the practice of medicine. For instance, how have the advanc…
