The Problem of Health Technology

ISBN-13: 9780415953498 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 266 str.

Pascale Lehoux; Lehoux Lehoux

Opis

Health technology is a pivotal locus of change and controversy in health care systems, and The Problem of Health Technology offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the topic. The book illuminates the scientific and policy arguments that are currently deployed in industrialized countries by addressing the perspectives of clinicians, health care managers, scholars, policymakers, patients, and industry. And by establishing a dialogue between two interdisciplinary fields--Health Technology Assessment and Science and Technology Studies--Pascale Lehoux argues for re-centering the debate around social and political questions rather than questions of affordability, thereby developing an alternative framework for thinking about the implications of health technology.

Spis treści

1: Health Technology Assessment: Promises and Pitfalls; 2: What Do Technologies Do?; 3: What Do Humans Want and for Whom?; 4: Reconciling Competing Objectives; 5: An Alternative Framework; 6: Conclusion: Toward Better Innovations

O autorze

Pascale Lehoux is Associate Professor in the Department of Health Administration at the University of Montreal. She is also Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Toronto, and she holds a Canada Research Chair on Innovations in Health.