PDF-[EBOOK]-Technology in the Hospital: Transforming Patient Care in the Early Twentieth Century

How did use of medical technology such as urinalyses blood tests and xray machines change patient care in earlytwentiethcentury American hospitals To what extent was the use of new machines influenced by the ideas of scientific medicine and to what extent by the availability of newly structured facilities and trained personnel Drawing on the medical treatment of more than 2000 patients in Pennsylvania and New York hospitals Howell traces the ways in which medical technology was used not merely how it was talked about He utilizes a wide range of sourcesincluding medical texts popular literature and the visual artsto explore how technology came to be such a central feature of medical careHowell also shows how changes in medical practice raised issues of gender culture and economics Howells analysis is especially timely in light of the ongoing debate over US health care reform a debate in which a central topic is the use and expense of medical technology In a concluding chapter he applies the books historical insights to medical practice todayasking why for example modern diagnostic tests have not been used to give doctors more time to spend with patients. 130 I British suppression led to Irish uprising and increased bloodshed. e Easter Rising of 1916 gures prominently in this time period, and Sinn Fein persisted in its goal for complete Irish in Suspicion, on the one side, is fuelled by the thought that being open-minded means having to regard any and every view as a serious possibility, such as being open-minded about the Loch Ness Monster, Pramit Sengupta. 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Century Revival: Colonial. Similar to Georgian, Federal, Adam, Greek Revival. Questions to be addressed in this chapter. What shift occurred in twentieth century theology that was characteristic of the liberal Protestant movement?. What conservative theological developments occurred in the twentieth century?. X-rays, fluoroscopy, ultrasound, CT, MRI, and PET scans--medical imaging has become a familiar part of modern health care today. A century ago, however, the idea of looking inside the living body seemed absurd. Wilhelm Roentgen\'s X-ray image of his wife\'s shadowy hand--with her wedding band floating around a white bone--convinced doctors to rush the new tool into use for diagnosis and treatment.By the 1920s, the technology was a commonplace wonder: army recruits had routinely lined up for chest X-rays during World War I, and children delighted in seeing the bones of their feet in the green glow of shoestore fluoroscopes. By the late 1960s, the computer and television were linked to produce medical images that were as startling as Roentgen\'s original X-rays. Computerized tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MR) made it possible to picture soft tissues invisible to ordinary X-rays. Ultrasound allowed expectant parents to see their unborn children. Positron emission tomography (PET) enabled neuroscientists to map the brain.In this lively history of medical imaging, the first to cover the full scope of the field from X-rays to MR-assistant surgery, Bettyann Kevles explores the consequences of these developments for medicine and society. Through lucid prose, vivid anecdotes, and more than seventy striking illustrations, she shows how medical imaging has transformed the practice of medicine--from pediatrics to dentistry, neurosurgery to geriatrics, gynecology to oncology.Despite their formidable power to reveal the inner secrets of the body, no form of medical imaging can claim to be the product of a technological imperative. As Kevles points out, few of these costly inventions made it easily to the marketplace, and all are vulnerable to the changing economics of the health-care system. In the early years of X-rays, many doctors, technicians, and patients died from overexposure to the invisible radiation. Although we may still find delayed repercussions from these newer technologies, a different kind of danger may lie in our conviction that an early diagnosis is equivalent to a cure.Beyond medicine, Kevles describes how X-rays and the newer technologies have become part of the texture of modern life and culture. They helped undermine Victorian sexual sensibilities, gave courts new forensic tools, provided plots for novels and movies, and offered artists from Picasso to Warhol new ways to depict the human form.Naked to the Bone offers readers an unparalled picture of a key technology of the twentieth century. Technology has always been inseparable from the development of music. But in the twentieth century a rapid acceleration took place: a new machine music came into existence, electronic musical instruments appeared, and composers sometimes seemed more like sound technicians than musicians. In this book Hans-Joachim Braun and his co-authors offer a wide-ranging and fascinating look at the relationship of technology and modern music. Topics range from the role of Yamaha in Japan\'s musical development to the social construction of the synthesizer from the player piano as precursor of computer music to the musical role of airplanes and locomotives from the growth of one independent recording studio (from Polka to Punk) to the origins of the 45–RPM record. Other chapters consider violin vibrato and the phonograph, Jimi Hendrix, and the aesthetic challenge of soundsampling. The book concludes with a look at the current situation, and perspectives for its future in electronic music.Contributors: Barbara Barthelmes, Karin Bijsterveld, Hans-Joachim Braun, Martha Brech, Hugh Davies, Bernd Enders, Geoffrey Hindley, Jüergen Hocker, Mark Katz, Tatsuya Kobayashi, James P. Kraft, Alexander B. Magoun, Rebecca McSwain, Andre Millard, Helga de la Motte-Haber, Trevor Pinch, Susan Schmidt-Horning, and Frank Trocco. How did use of medical technology such as urinalyses, blood tests, and x-ray machines change patient care in early-twentieth-century American hospitals? To what extent was the use of new machines influenced by the ideas of scientific medicine and to what extent by the availability of newly structured facilities and trained personnel? Drawing on the medical treatment of more than 2,000 patients in Pennsylvania and New York hospitals, Howell traces the ways in which medical technology was used, not merely how it was talked about. He utilizes a wide range of sources—including medical texts, popular literature, and the visual arts—to explore how technology came to be such a central feature of medical care.Howell also shows how changes in medical practice raised issues of gender, culture, and economics. Howell\'s analysis is especially timely in light of the ongoing debate over U.S. health care reform, a debate in which a central topic is the use and expense of medical technology. 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