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Surgeons, Manufacturers and Patients

Part of the Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230596238

ISBN: 978-1-349-36291-2

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK - Springer Journals

Nov 28, 2015

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Total Hip Replacement: Introduction, Sources and Outline

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 1 –18

[On May 9 1933, an article in The Times headed ‘Railway Engineer’s Suicide’, reported that a 57-year old man had shot himself ‘while of unsound mind.’ As the Coroner explained, (He was) Suffering from profound depression caused by physical disability arising from a chronic disease of the...
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Surgeons and Engineers in Postwar Britain: Medical Technology in Local Contexts

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 19 –44

[Before WWII, operations on arthritic joints were a last resort. Most involved cutting away part of the joint and fixing it (arthrodesis) so as to prevent motion and so reduce pain.1 In some cases, the operated joint was manipulated to allow a certain amount of motion.2 But the limitations of...
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The Industrial Development of British Hip Replacements and the Charnley/Thackray Relationship

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 45 –63

[In the last chapter we focussed on surgeons and engineers, but we also mentioned the companies with which they worked. Deloro Stellite, the metal company, sold the McKee-Farrar and initially made some of the Stanmore models; Zimmer UK, a major orthopaedic supplier, was mainly responsible for the...
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Medical Technology and Industrial Dynamics: The United States and the Global Market

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 64 –80

[In this chapter we explore the histories of some of the American manufacturers who now dominate the global hip-replacement market. We go on to examine how they have worked with surgeons, not least through technical representatives who visit hospitals and may take a part in the surgical...
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Change and Stability in Technical Systems: Materials and Environments

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 81 –105

[In the previous chapters, we have followed the initial development of THRs, especially in Britain, and the development of the hip-joint industry, predominantly in the US. In this chapter we return to the technologies, to examine in more detail how they evolved, and what constrained them. In the...
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Hips, Health Services and Quality

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 106 –129

[So far in this book we have discussed surgeons, engineers and companies, and in the next chapter we will discuss patients. Much of this present chapter will be about governments. We will look at the health services of the UK and the US, and the different ways in which THRs existed in those...
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The Changing Nature of Patients: Expectations and Information

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 130 –143

[Throughout the day there were more preliminaries. Sister Holmes came and gave me a knowledgeable, motherly talk about the operation. She was followed by one of the nurses I’d seen in the morning, a nice girl who talked to me animatedly. She said something about the prosthesis — ‘Haven’t you seen...
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What is Past is Present

Anderson, Julie; Neary, Francis; Pickstone, John V.

Pages: 144 –161

[Writing this book has been an adventure in many ways, from the initial proposal conceived with David Cantor on the basis of his research on arthritis, to the work with Francis and the extension into museum projects at the Royal College of Surgeons, London, and at Wrightington Hospital. We did...

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