Medical Innovation: Science, technology and practice (Routledge International Studies in Health Economics)

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Synopsis
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 http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 3.0 license.
Copyright:
2016

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
186 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781317507215
Related ISBNs:
9781315716510, 9780367668686, 9781138860346
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial material, Davide Consoli, Andrea Mina, Richard R. Nelson and Ronnie Ramlogan
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Business and Finance
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Davide Consoli
Edited by:
Andrea Mina
Edited by:
Richard R. Nelson
Edited by:
Ronnie Ramlogan

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