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Medical Innovation: Science, technology and practice

Medical Innovation: Science, technology and practice

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This book explores why medical practice develops unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. It adopts a dynamic perspective on medical innovation that emphasizes the co-evolution of scientific understanding, technology, and clinical practice. The chapters follow an historical approach to highlight that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested, nuanced process involving various knowledge bases.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 186 pages
\n Publication date: 30 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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This comprehensive book presents a collection of empirical case studies that explore a diverse range of medical innovations. While there is no singular path to successful medical innovation, certain recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book delves into the reasons behind why medical practice exhibits such uneven development across and within disease areas, and how these factors connect to the underlying conditions of innovation across different practice domains.

The contributions included in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation, emphasizing the co-evolution of scientific understanding, technology, and clinical practice in the search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to highlight that the advancement of medical knowledge is a complex and nuanced process, involving a multitude of knowledge bases that emerge from specific contexts.

This book will appeal to researchers and practitioners interested in medical innovation, management studies, and the economics of innovation. In particular, Chapter 5 of this book is available for free download as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. You can access the PDF file by following this link: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138860346_oachapter5.pdf

\n Weight: 334g\n
Dimension: 156 x 232 x 21 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367668686\n \n

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