Technology and Medical Practice (Theory, Technology and Society)

by ErickaJohnson (Author), Boel Berner (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $156.86

  What happens to the patient in a technologized medical environment? How are doctors', nurses' and medical scientists' practices changed when artefacts are involved? This book addresses these developments and dilemmas, focusing on various practices with technologies within hospitals and sociotechnical systems of care.