Skip to main content

Medical Technology and the Health Care System A Study of the Diffusion of Equipment-Embodied Technology (1979) / Chapter Skim
Currently Skimming:

APPENDIXES
Pages 99-100

The Chapter Skim interface presents what we've algorithmically identified as the most significant single chunk of text within every page in the chapter.
Select key terms on the right to highlight them within pages of the chapter.


From page 99...
... The limitations, on the one hand, justify the character of the entire report, but also avoid examination in this report of medical technology from other perspectives. After carefully cataloging items that belong under the rubric "equipment-embodied technology," we treat it as a conceptually simple aggregate like "merchandise." This approach ignores critical differences such as: (l)
Read the entire page →
From page 100...
... It may also be that technological innovation proceeds under certain natural pressures and needs no scrutiny, or that the appropriate and final philosophy should be that someone shall create and the polity shall dispose. But the paradigm, "If 'merchandise' is a villain which causes people to spend money, the wisest course is to take money away or somehow make 'merchandise' undersirable," is disquieting.
Read the entire page →

Key Terms

  • causes people
  • medical purposes
  • simple aggregate
  • conceptually simple
  • technological innovation

  • technology manage
  • wisest course
  • innovation proceeds
  • carefully cataloging
  • care costs

  • scale address
  • spend money
  • cataloging items
  • technological innovations
  • final philosophy

  • current preoccupation
  • approach ignores
  • ical differences
  • natural pressures
  • medical care

  • medical technology
  • technology relates
  • ignores critical
  • technology exists
  • principal recommendations

  • avoid examination
  • critical differences
  • entire report
  • succintly described


    • This material may be derived from roughly machine-read images, and so is provided only to facilitate research.
    More information on Chapter Skim is available.