Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There was no valid evidence, they claimed, that proton beams were more effective than less costly alternatives. But developers expected insurance to cover their centers' staggeringly high costs and debts. Was speculation like this new to health care?
Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and...
Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing...
This book tells eleven Urban Histories of Science from nine cities - Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Dublin, Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, Naples and Buenos Aires - situated on the margins of Europe or even outside of it. With a focus on the time around the turn of the 20th century, it contains episodes dealing with astronomy and archaeology, zoology and geology, engineering, hygiene and city planning. Yet why delve into the scientific culture of cities, which are considered marginal in terms of their production in science, technology and medicine? This book turns the tables and shows what...
This book tells eleven Urban Histories of Science from nine cities - Athens, Barcelona, Budapest, Dublin, Glasgow, Helsinki, Lisbon, Naples a...
Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecology is a field science that has thrived on the study of concrete spatial entities, such as islands, forests or rivers. These spaces are the workplaces in which ecological phenomena are identified, observed and experimented on. They provide both epistemic opportunities and constraints that structure the agenda and the analytical sensibilities of ecological researchers. On the other hand, ecological knowledge and practices have become important...
Throughout its history, the discipline of ecology has always been profoundly entangled with the history of space and place. On the one hand, ecolog...
In the past ten years medical and legal historians have clearly acknowledged the fertile links that have long existed between medicine and the law in Britain. However, this far-reaching subject has been comparatively unexplored in the English and Welsh context. This monograph, drawing on the details of c. 3000 cases of serious violence against the person which occurred in northern and central England, Wales and London, offers a comparative long-term perspective on medico-legal practice, and argues that it is only by exploring local practices that we can begin to understand how and why...
In the past ten years medical and legal historians have clearly acknowledged the fertile links that have long existed between medicine and the law in ...
