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Human aspects of biomedical innovation

Title
Human aspects of biomedical innovation / Everett Mendelsohn, Judith P. Swazey, and Irene Taviss, editors.
Publication
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1971.

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Additional Authors
  • Mendelsohn, Everett
  • Swazey, Judith P.
  • Taviss, Irene
Description
x, 234 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
This book discusses the social control of new biomedical technologies and the problems in organization and delivery of medical care in the face of new technological and social change.
Series Statement
Harvard studies in technology and society
Uniform Title
Harvard studies in technology and society
Subject
  • Medical innovations > Social aspects
  • Medical ethics
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Medical care
  • Social control
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Social Control, Formal
  • Ethics, Medical
  • Patient Care
  • biomedical engineering
  • Social control
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Medical care
  • Medical ethics
  • Medical innovations > Social aspects
Genre/Form
  • Essay
  • essays.
  • Essays
  • Essays.
  • Essais.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Part I. Introduction -- Problems in the social control of biomedical science and technology / Irene Taviss -- Part II. Toward a social policy for biomedical science and technology -- PKU a study of biomedical legislation / Samuel P. Bessman and Judith P. Swazey -- Physician, patients, and society : some new tensions in medical ethics / Edmund D. Pellegrino -- Some ethical problems in clinical investigation / Louis Lasagna -- The Harvard Conference on Behavioral Control Technologies / Everett Mendelsohn, Judith P. Swazey, Irene Taviss -- Part III. Science, technology, and the practice of medicine -- New technologies and the practice of medicine / Victor W. Sidel -- The health care system of industrial society : the disappearance of the general practitioner and some implications / Mark G. Field -- Notes on medical manpower : quantity, quality, and medicine's current efforts / John H. Knowles.
ISBN
  • 0674413318
  • 9780674413313
LCCN
74160027
OCLC
  • ocm00205441
  • 205441
  • SCSB-310072
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library