Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century

Introduction: Technology and health in the age of the patient consumer - Thomas Schlich and Rachel Elder

Part I: New technologies and patient markets

1 Dental X- rays and the imagined patient - Vivien Hamilton
2 Chronic neglect: Race, dialysis, and vulnerable patienthood - Richard M. Mizelle, Jr
3 Patients, 'consumer sovereignty', and technological change: The adoption of minimally invasive surgery - Cynthia L. Tang

Part II: Informed patients and patient information

4 Tampons, technology, and toxic shock syndrome: From consumer to patient to informant - Sharra Vostral
5 Just stories: Side effects and the patient voice online - Antoine Lentacker

Part III: Co-opting disease, promoting prevention and healing

6 Sunbeds, dihydroxyacetone (DHA) fake tan, and MelanoTan injections: A history of 'safe' tanning
technologies - Fabiola Creed
7 Against 'prevention pills': North American breast cancer activists and chemoprevention - Grazia De Michele
8 'Mental health is not fashion': RIP shirts, stigma, and consumerism - Christopher M. Rudeen

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• História da engenharia e da tecnologia
• História da medicina
• Sociologia médica
• História da Ciência

disintermediation; health consumerism; health inequities; history of medicine; medical technology; medicine; patient activism; patient consumerism; patient consumers; patient information; patient rights; patients