Manchester University Press
Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century
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9781526171146
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9781526171146
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$157.46
Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century
$157.46
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' roles as consumers since the early twentieth century. Chapters examine key issues, such as the changing nature of patient information and choice, patients' assessment of risk and reward, and matters of patient role and of patient demand as they relate to new and changing technologies. They simultaneously investigate how differences in access to care and in outcomes across various patient groups have been influenced by the advent of new technologies and consumer-based approaches to health. The volume spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, spotlights an array of medical technologies and health products, and draws on examples from across the United States and United Kingdom.
| Author: Rachel Elder |
| Publisher: Manchester University Press |
| Publication Date: Jan 28, 2025 |
| Number of Pages: 264 pages |
| Binding: Hardback or Cased Book |
| ISBN-10: 1526171147 |
| ISBN-13: 9781526171146 |
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