This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO's surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky technique as a standard treatment sheds light on the mechanisms of medical innovation at the crossroads of surgery, science and industry and the nature of modern medicine in general.

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THOMAS SCHLICH is a Medical Historian with a double qualification in history and medicine. He has published widely on history of nineteenth and twentieth century science and medicine. He is the author of books on the history of organ transplantation and the ethical, legal and cultural problems connected with transplant medicine.

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Book Title: Surgery, Science and Industry
Book Subtitle: A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s
Authors: Thomas Schlich
Series Title: Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230513280
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2002
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-99305-7Published: 19 June 2002
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-43181-6Published: 01 January 2002
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-51328-0Published: 22 January 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-9643
Series E-ISSN: 2946-9651
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 349
Topics: History of Science, History of Medicine, History of Technology, World History, Global and Transnational History

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Front Matter

Introduction: The AO

Setting up a Network, 19S0s–1970s

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Coping with Success, 1970s–1990s

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Conclusion

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