Barbara Bridgman Perkins

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) co-evolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. This provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351978125
• Artikelnr.: 48786693

Autorenporträt

Barbara Bridgman Perkins is the author of The Medical Delivery Business: Health Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order and articles in medical history and public health policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Medical Care as Trade
PART I
Radiation Enterprise, 1895 to World War II
2. The Medical Radium Industry
3. The General Electric Company Dominates X-ray
4. Competing Research Universities
PART II
Competitive Megavoltage, World War II to the 1970s
5. Megavoltage Competition in Academia and Industry
6. Medicine's Nuclear Arms Race
7. An Economic Success Story at Stanford
8. Radiation Therapy Politics
PART III
Financializing Medicine, 1970s to the 2010s
9. Speculating on Proton Therapy
10. Rationalizing Radiation Therapy, Reforming Health Care
11. Choosing Health Over Wealth
Selected Bibliography
Index