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1 online resource (251 pages) |
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Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine |
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Routledge studies in the history of science, technology, and medicine.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Medical Care as Trade; Markets and the Medical Business System; Medical Specialties and High-Cost Procedure Units; Building a Radiation Therapy Industry; Science and Practice; Cancer and Radiation Therapy in the United States; Markets and Policy; Outline of the Book; Notes; Part 1 Radiation Enterprise, 1895 to World War II; Political and Economic Environment; Notes; Chapter 2 The Medical Radium Industry; Radium Pioneering; The Standard Chemical Company ; A Public-Private Joint Venture |
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Geopolitics and Medical RadiumQuestions of Radium Use and Its Clinical Effectiveness; Notes; Chapter 3 The General Electric Company Dominates X-ray; A New Therapy Tube Brings GE Back into the X-Ray Business; GE Escalates Voltage and Builds a Product Line; The Company Promotes Business Strategies in Medicine (and Beyond); Notes; Chapter 4 Competing Research Universities; Supervoltage Treatment at Caltech; Academia and Industry at the University of California; MIT Enters the Megavoltage Race; Research on the Use and Therapeutic Effectiveness of Radium and X-ray; Notes |
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Part 2 Competitive Megavoltage, World War II to the 1970s Political and Economic Environment; Notes; Chapter 5 Megavoltage Competition in Academia and Industry; General Electric Tries Everything; High Voltage and Venture Capital at MIT; The Most Powerful of All at California; Notes; Chapter 6 Medicine's Nuclear Arms Race; Ontario versus Saskatchewan; The Rise of the Texas Medical Center; Entrepreneurship in Practice and Research; Cobalt Treatment Booms; Effectiveness Research; Notes; Chapter 7 An Economic Success Story at Stanford; Higher Education: A Highly Competitive Business |
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A Technology, a Company, and an Industrial ParkTechnology Development at a Self-Financing Medical School; Commercializing the Medical Linear Accelerator; Money and Power in the Radiology Department; Kaplan Takes On Hodgkin's; Notes; Chapter 8 Radiation Therapy Politics; Data and Discourse; Politics and Policy; Notes; Part 3 Financializing Medicine, 1970s to the 2010s; Political and Economic Environment; Notes; Chapter 9 Speculating on Proton Therapy; Raising the Stakes; Management Company/Manufacturing Alliances; Proton Manufacturing Accelerates; Practice versus Science |
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The Case of the Prostate GlandPublic and Private Health Policy; The Insurance Industry Challenges Proton Therapy ; Globalizing Particle Centers; Notes; Chapter 10 Rationalizing Radiation Therapy, Reforming Health Care; Taking the Measure of Cancer and Radiation Therapy; Health Care Reform; Notes; Chapter 11 Choosing Health Over Wealth; Market Strategies; Re-Forming Health Care; Notes; Acknowledgments; Selected Bibliography; Archival Collections; Books, Chapters, Dissertations, Journal Articles, and Reports; Index |
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Print version record |
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Radiotherapy.
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Radiation Oncology -- history
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Technology, Radiologic -- history
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Technology, Radiologic -- economics
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Neoplasms -- radiotherapy
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History, 20th Century
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History, 21st Century
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Radiotherapy
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Radiotherapy
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United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351978132 |
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1351978136 |
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