Social Process and the Assessment of a New Imaging Technique
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 March 2009
Abstract
Each group involved in the development of a new medical technology constantly assesses the value of the emergent technique in terms of the group’s own specific goals and conventions. The history of infrared thermography demonstrates the social nature of this assessment process.
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- Special Section: Industry and the Generation of Technology, Part II
- Information
- International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 9 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993 , pp. 335 - 345
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993
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