Devices and Designs: Medical Technologies in Historical Perspective

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Devices, Designs and the History of Technology in Medicine....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Bones in Lancashire: Towards Long-term Contextual Analysis of Medical Technology....Pages 17-36
Mechanizing Medicine: Medical Innovations and the Birmingham Voluntary Hospitals in the Nineteenth Century....Pages 37-60
Private Laboratories and Medical Expertise in Boston Circa 1900....Pages 61-73
Innovating Expertise: X-ray and Laboratory Workers in the Canadian Hospital, 1920–1950....Pages 74-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Artificial Eyes and the Artificialization of the Human Face....Pages 97-111
Biotronik: 40 Years of German Entrepreneurship in Medical Technology....Pages 112-136
Building Science-based Medicine at Stanford: Henry Kaplan and the Medical Linear Accelerator, 1948–1975....Pages 137-155
Hexamethonium, Hypertension and Pharmaceutical Innovation: The Transformation of an Experimental Drug in Post-war Britain....Pages 156-174
Greenhouses and Body Suits: The Challenge to Knowledge in Early Hip Replacement Surgery 1960–1982....Pages 175-191
Front Matter....Pages 193-193
From Epidemic to Scandal: the Politicization of Antibiotic Resistance, 1957–1969....Pages 195-211
Cancer Clinical Trials and the Transfer of Medical Knowledge: Metrology, Contestation and Local Practice....Pages 212-230
‘The Best Bones in the Graveyard’: Risky Technologies and Risks in Knowledge....Pages 231-248
The Politics of Endpoints....Pages 249-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-284