Medical Innovations in Historical Perspective
Медицинские инновации в исторической перспективе
1992-01-01
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Series Introduction - Preface - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction J.V.Pickstone - 'Upon this Principle I have based a Practice'. The Development and Reception of Antisepsis in Britain, 1867-90 L.Granshaw - The Sanatorium Treatment for Consumption in Britain, 1890-1914 M.Worboys - From Medical Research to Clinical Practice: Serum Therapy for Diphtheria in the 1890s P.Weindling - Vaccine Therapy and Laboratory Medicine in Edwardian Britain M.Worboys - From the Trenches to the Hospitals at Home: Physiologists, Clinicians and Oxygen Therapy, 1914-30 S.Sturdy - X-Ray Technology in Obstetrics: Measuring Pelves at the Yale School of Medicine A.Hiddinga - The Politics of a Spatial Innovation: Fracture Clinics in Interwar Britain R.Cooter - Cortisone and the Politics of Drama, 1949-55 D.Cantor - Psychiatry in District General Hospitals: History, Contingency and Local Innovation in the Early Years of the National Health Service J.V.Pickstone - References - Index
Key Findings
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Antisepsis, sanatorium treatment, serum therapy, vaccine therapy, and oxygen therapy are analyzed as innovations shaped by interactions among laboratory research, clinical practice, and professional communities.
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Cortisone’s adoption between 1949 and 1955 is presented as politically shaped by the dramatic presentation and public reception of medical innovation.
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The collection emphasizes that medical innovation was contingent, contested, and mediated by social, political, professional, and institutional factors rather than being a straightforward progression of scientific advances.
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The history of X-ray pelvimetry, fracture clinics, and district-general-hospital psychiatry demonstrates that technological and organizational innovations depended on spatial arrangements, local conditions, and institutional politics.
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The volume examines how medical innovations developed, were received, and entered clinical practice across Britain and the United States from the late nineteenth century to the postwar period.
Research Object
medical innovations and therapeutic practices in Britain and related clinical settings from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century
Research Subject
the historical development, reception, implementation, and political and institutional shaping of antisepsis, sanatorium treatment, serum and vaccine therapy, oxygen and X-ray technologies, fracture clinics, cortisone, and hospital psychiatry
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