Innovations in Health and Medicine

This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology. The book brings comparative perspectives to bear in three ways: * Micro-studies look at close neighbours using ultrasound scanners in Scotland and chronic disease clinics in Manchester * Cross-national studies show how innovations fared as they migrated: western nursing in Japan, eastern acupuntures in the UK, ans Swiss bone surgery in the old East Germany and the US. * Reinnovation includes new media representation of medicine, and an alternative form of kidney dialysis in the UK, reinvention of the midwife in New Zealand, and living donor translpants in France. With its emphasis on clarity of writing, its mix of empirical details and analysis, and its rich bibliography, this volume offers rewards to academic and helath service readers alike.