Medical innovation science, technology and practice
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why...
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Formato: | Libro electrónico |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis
2016
2016. |
Edición: | 1st ed |
Colección: | Routledge international studies in health economics.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009621458406719 |
Sumario: | This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. The contributions contained in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation based on the notion that scientific understanding, technology and clinical practice co-evolve along the co-ordinated search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to emphasise that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested, nuanced process, and that it involves a variety of knowledge bases whose evolutionary paths are rooted in the contexts in which they emerge. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned with medical innovation, management studies and the economics of innovation. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. |
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Notas: | Chapter 5, Technological accretion in diagnostics: HPV testing and cytology in cervical cancer screening, available Open Access |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (213 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9781317507215 9781315716510 9781317507222 |