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Technology in the hospital : transforming patient care in the early twentieth century / Joel D. Howell.
- Title
- Technology in the hospital : transforming patient care in the early twentieth century / Joel D. Howell.
- Author
- Howell, Joel D.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1995], ©1995.
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- Description
- xv, 341 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- How did use of medical technology such as urinalyses, blood tests, and x-ray machines change patient care in early-twentieth-century American hospitals? To what extent was the use of new machines influenced by the ideas of scientific medicine and to what extent by the availability of newly structured facilities and trained personnel? Drawing on the medical treatment of more than 2,000 people as reflected in patient records from Pennsylvania and New York hospitals, Joel D.
- Howell traces the ways in which medical technology was used, not merely how it was talked about. He utilizes a wide range of sources - including medical texts, popular literature, the visual arts, and the voices of both opponents and proponents of innovation - to explore how technology came to be such a central feature of medical care.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-334) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Physicians, Patients, and Medical Technology -- 2. Science, Scientific Systems, and Surgery: Technology and the U.S. Hospital -- 3. The Changing Meaning of Urinalysis: "Old Wine in New Bottles" -- 4. Clinical Use of the X-Ray Machine: The Newest Technology at the Oldest Hospitals -- 5. The X-Ray Image: Meaning, Gender, and Power -- 6. Blood and Blood Counts: Ideas and Instruments -- 7. Blood and Diseases: Pneumonia, Typhoid Fever, and Appendicitis -- 8. Machines and Medicine: Lessons from the Early Twentieth Century -- Appendix: Sampling Techniques and Coding Forms.
- ISBN
- 0801850207 (hc : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 94038601
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries