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Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients : A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement - Julie Anderson

Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients

A Transatlantic History of Total Hip Replacement

By: Julie Anderson, Francis Neary, John V. Pickstone

Hardcover | 1 December 2007 | Edition Number 1

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The Total Hip Replacement, or Artificial Hip, was invented by British surgeons after World War Two. It became the basis of a multi-billion global industry in joint replacement. This pioneering study ranges from inventive surgeons to multi-national manufacturers, including technologies, collaborations, regulations, quality assessments, and the changing expectations of patients. It explores total hip replacement in the very different health economies of the U.K. and the U.S., asking searching questions about costs as well as benefits.
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'John Charnley, a Lancashire surgeon pioneered the artificial hip in the early years of the NHS. Today it is a multibillion dollar business largely based in the USA. Tracing what happened in between, this book has much to say about the way we think about new health care technology, and how we came to think that way. Historians will read it with pleasure. Policy makers should read it with concern.' - Stuart Blume, University of Amsterdam

'This important, original and timely book deals in an exemplary way with a central, but neglected aspect of modern medicine - its material side. It is literally a history of materials, but also of designs, markets and patients, of surgeons, engineers and entrepreneurs. It helps open a new agenda, showing that the history of medicine and industry is much wider than just pharmaceuticals.' - Thomas Schlich, McGill University, Montreal

'Elegant, informative and thought-provoking. The authors show how THR (standing in here for all bodily replacements) has influenced and been influenced by changing cultural, socioeconomic and political concepts about mechanization of the body, the industrialization of medicine, the public role of the medical profession, and both the privatization and globalization of the medical economy.' - Rosemary Stevens, Weill Cornell Medical College, NY

'Enriched by the new historiography of technology, this is a well-written piece of modern medical history.' - Christopher Lawrence, Medical History

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Non-FictionMedicineNursing & Ancillary ServicesBiomedical EngineeringProstheticsSurgeryOrthopaedics & FracturesMedicine in GeneralHistory of MedicineHistoryRegional & National HistoryEuropean History
British & Irish HistoryEarliest Times to Present Day20th Century History from 1900 to 2000Post War 20th Century History after 1945History of the AmericasSpecific Events & Topics in HistorySocial & Cultural HistoryMedical Equipment & TechniquesScienceScience in GeneralHistory of Science

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