Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century

Rachel Elder, Thomas Schlich (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-7114-6 (ISBN)

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This book examines the little explored relationship between a variety of medical, informational, and health technologies and patients’ roles as consumers from the early twentieth century to the present. It shows how patients as consumers have shaped such technologies, and equally, how technology has had a lasting effect on ways of being a patient. -- .

Technology and consumerism are two characteristic phenomena in the history medicine and healthcare, yet the connections between them are rarely explored by scholars. In this edited volume, the authors address this disconnect, noting the ways in which a variety of technologies have shaped patients’ roles as consumers since the early twentieth century. Chapters examine key issues, such as the changing nature of patient information and choice, patients’ assessment of risk and reward, and matters of patient role and of patient demand as they relate to new and changing technologies. They simultaneously investigate how differences in access to care and in outcomes across various patient groups have been influenced by the advent of new technologies and consumer-based approaches to health. The volume spans the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, spotlights an array of medical technologies and health products, and draws on examples from across the United States and United Kingdom. -- .

Rachel Elder is Research Associate in the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University Thomas Schlich is James McGill Professor in the History of Medicine and Department Chair of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University -- .

Introduction: Technology and health in the age of the patient consumer – Thomas Schlich and Rachel Elder

Part I: New technologies and patient markets

1 Dental X- rays and the imagined patient – Vivien Hamilton
2 Chronic neglect: Race, dialysis, and vulnerable patienthood – Richard M. Mizelle, Jr
3 Patients, ‘consumer sovereignty’, and technological change: The adoption of minimally invasive surgery – Cynthia L. Tang

Part II: Informed patients and patient information

4 Tampons, technology, and toxic shock syndrome: From consumer to patient to informant – Sharra Vostral
5 Just stories: Side effects and the patient voice online – Antoine Lentacker

Part III: Co-opting disease, promoting prevention and healing

6 Sunbeds, dihydroxyacetone (DHA) fake tan, and MelanoTan injections: A history of ‘safe’ tanning
technologies – Fabiola Creed
7 Against ‘prevention pills’: North American breast cancer activists and chemoprevention – Grazia De Michele
8 ‘Mental health is not fashion’: RIP shirts, stigma, and consumerism – Christopher M. Rudeen

Index -- .

Erscheint lt. Verlag	25.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Social Histories of Medicine
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
ISBN-10	1-5261-7114-7 / 1526171147
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-7114-6 / 9781526171146
Zustand	Neuware