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The Technological Imperative in Medical Practice: The Social Creation of a “Routine” Treatment

  • Koenig B
Springer Netherlands, (1988), 465-496
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_18
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While leaving the operating room after assisting with an early implantation of an artificial heart into a human being, Dr. Robert Jarvik, one of the inventors of the new device, commented to the press that the surgery had gone so smoothly it seemed...

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Koenig, B. A. (1988). The Technological Imperative in Medical Practice: The Social Creation of a “Routine” Treatment. In Biomedicine Examined (pp. 465–496). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2725-4_18

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