Image and Reality: Case Study of the Impacts of Medical Technology - Softcover

Stocking, Barbara; Morrison, Stuart L.

 
9780197212202: Image and Reality: Case Study of the Impacts of Medical Technology

Synopsis

Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 80 pages; xi, 80p. ; 22cm. A study which casts doubts on the present arrangements for correlating cost-benefit assessments with technological advances. It argues that some technologies in the future will be so costly in relation to benefits that society will be forced to renounce them. to benefits that society will be forced to renounce them. Subjects: Medical care - Great Britain. Tomography - Data processing. Medical technology. National health services - Great Britain.

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