Author: STOCKING, BARBARA
Title: The image and the reality : a case-study of the impacts of medical technology / [by] Barbara Stocking and Stuart L. Morrison
Description: Oxford : Oxford University Press for the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust 1978. First Edition. Very good paperback copy; edges slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 80 pages; xi. 80p. ; 22cm. A study which casts doubts on the present arrangements for correlating cost-benefit assessments with technological advances. It argues that some technologies in the future will be so costly in relation to benefits that society will be forced to renounce them. to benefits that society will be forced to renounce them. Subjects: Medical care - Great Britain. Tomography - Data processing. Medical technology. National health services - Great Britain.ISBN: 0197212204. Weight in Kg appr.:

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