Pada tahun 1979, ketika edisi pertama Radiologi Ortopedi Pediatrik diterbitkan, diagnosis radiologis hampir seluruhnya bergantung pada radiografi dan artrografi sesekali. Komunikasi antara ahli radiologi dan ahli bedah ortopedi terbatas. Revisi tahun 1992 memperkenalkan ultrasound, computed tomography, dan magnetic resonance imaging, tetapi pada saat itu teknik ini masih relatif baru, dan poten…
Yi-Tang Lin menyajikan proses historis dimana statistik menjadi bahasa kesehatan global untuk organisasi kesehatan lokal dan internasional. Berdasarkan bahan arsip dari tiga benua, penelitian ini menyelidiki upaya sekolah kesehatan masyarakat, yayasan filantropi, dan organisasi internasional untuk mengubah angka menjadi bahasa internasional untuk kesehatan masyarakat. Line menunjukkan bagaimana…
In this discipline-redefining book, Elizabeth T. Hurren maps the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body parts, organs and brains, inside the secretive culture of modern British medical research after WWII as the bodies of the deceasednnwere harvested as bio-commons. Often the human stories behind these bodies were dissected, discarded or destroyed in death. Hidden Histories of the Dead recovers h…
This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to…
This book contains papers arising from a symposium held during a combined meeting of The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES),