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oapen-20.500.12657-283952021-11-12T16:09:55Z Technological Change in Modern Surgery Schlich, Thomas Crenner, Christopher Surgery technological change medicine bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine 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. 2018-10-02 09:15:31 2020-04-01T12:22:12Z 2020-04-01T12:22:12Z 2017 book 1001567 OCN: 1076700921 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/28395 eng Rochester Studies in Medical History University of Rochester Press 2ec59728-955a-4262-a446-e1a2e1f2c8e1 4e658bf4-dff2-440a-ba1c-a7f01742e193 244 Rochester open access
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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.
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