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Medical Technology into Healthcare and Society

A Sociology of Devices, Innovation and Governance

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Part of the book series: Health, Technology and Society (HTE)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
  2. Approaching Technology

    • Alex Faulkner
    Pages 13-26
  3. The World of Medical Devices

    • Alex Faulkner
    Pages 27-41
  4. Infusion Pumps: Usership and the Governance of Error

    • Mara Clécia, Dantas Souza
    Pages 100-130
  5. Coagulometers: Healthcare Governance at Home

    • Alex Faulkner
    Pages 131-158
  6. Devising Healthcare and Society

    • Alex Faulkner
    Pages 188-209
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 210-238

About this book

From bandage to the bioreactor, this book looks at five different device technologies from inception to healthcare practice, drawing on medical sociology, science and technology studies and political science. It examines 'evidence', regulation and governance processes, and diverse stakeholders in innovating the technologies that shape health care.

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“The book represents informative reading for the STS scholars interested in knowledge claims and expertise, and of course those interested in the life-course of medical devices, particularly on a meso or macro level. … Further, this work would surely help to paint a more complete picture of the medical innovation process that would be valuable to regulators and policy makers in this area, and even designers of health devices.” (Conor M. W. Douglas, Science Studies, Issue 1, 2012)

'Faulkner has...given us a broad-ranging scholarly analysis of a topic that will never cease to fascinate and challenge modern societies...[the] book brings a significant contribution to the current literature on health technology and society' - Sociology of Health and Illness

Authors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff University, UK

    Alex Faulkner

About the author

ALEX FAULKNER is Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Society, Health and Ethics, School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, UK.

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