Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts
Broschiertes Buch

Humans and Devices in Medical Contexts

Case Studies from Japan

Herausgegeben: Brucksch, Susanne; Sasaki, Kaori
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This book explores the ways in which socio-technical settings in medical contexts find varying articulations in a specific locale. Focusing on Japan, it consists of nine case studies on topics concerning: experiences with radiation in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Fukushima; patient security, end-of-life and high-tech medicine in hospitals; innovation and diffusion of medical technology; and the engineering and evaluating of novel devices in clinical trials. The individual chapters situate humans and devices in medical settings in their given semantic, pragmatic, institutional and historical contex...