| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
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Routledge International Studies in Health Economics |
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Routledge international studies in health economics.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Sources and effects of medical innovation; 1 The intra-ocular lens revolution; Introduction; Innovation and the problem sequence; The evolution of the problem sequence; The growth and transformation of medical knowledge in the IOL micro-innovation system; The market for cataract surgery: demand, need and regulation; Conclusions; 2 Coronary artery disease; Introduction; Treatments for CAD prior to the 1980s |
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The advent of a new treatment modalityThe development of PCI: phase 1; Phase 2: the introduction of the stent; Beyond technology: co-evolutionary dynamics of knowledge and institutions; Conclusion; 3 The evolution of the Left Ventricular Assist Device as a treatment for heart failure; Introduction; Contextual background; A detailed history of the origin and evolution of the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD); The evolution of the LVAD as a treatment for heart failure; 4 Uncertainty in the hybridisation of new medical devices: The artificial disc case; Introduction |
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Uncertainty and the artificial discHybridisation and the artificial disc; Conclusions; 5 Technological accretion in diagnostics: HPV testing and cytology in cervical cancer screening; Introduction; Method; The development of cervical cancer screening in the USA; The career of the HPV test; Conclusions; 6 Poliomyelitis vaccine innovation; Introduction; The emergence of a problem and the vision of a solution; Brodie-Kolmer vaccine failures: a weak testing regime in need of strengthening; The construction of a more sophisticated testability regime |
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Passive immunisation: testing for design and field-based capabilitiesKilled vaccines: testing regimes for taking 'calculated risk'; Live vaccines: testing in the shadow of the killed vaccine; Discussion and conclusions; 7 Glaucoma: The silent thief of sight; Introduction; Glaucoma: a puzzling problem; Glaucoma research: shifting understandings; Glaucoma therapeutics: the persistence of old ways; Concluding remarks; Conclusion; Index |
| Summary |
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. The contributions contained in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation based on the notion that scientific understanding, technology and clinical practice co-evolve along the co-ordinated search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to emphasise that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested, nuanced process, and that it involves a variety of knowledge bases whose evolutionary paths are rooted in the contexts in which they emerge |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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| Subject |
Medical innovations.
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Medical innovations -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Microeconomics.
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Medical innovations
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Consoli, Davide, editor
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Mina, Andrea, editor
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Nelson, Richard R., editor
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Ramlogan, R. (Ronnie), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781317507215 |
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1317507215 |
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9781317507222 |
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1317507223 |
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9781317507208 |
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1317507207 |
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