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A Bridge between Conceptual FrameworksHeart Matters. The Collaboration Between Surgeons and Engineers in the Rise of Cardiac Surgery

A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks: Heart Matters. The Collaboration Between Surgeons and... [Triumphant medicine in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth centuries involved increasing amounts of technology and engineering skills. The present contribution gives an example of such a momentous and irreversible convergence between two specific fields: surgery and mechanical engineering. In less than 50 years (c.1930–1980) several “scientific couples” (usually a visionary surgeon and an above-average-skilled engineer) had made a reality of a long dreamed “impossibility” of modern medicine such as open-heart surgery. This contribution will focus not only on technical details but also on the “human factor” which was the hallmark of the protagonists of this revolution.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Bridge between Conceptual FrameworksHeart Matters. The Collaboration Between Surgeons and Engineers in the Rise of Cardiac Surgery

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 27)
Editors: Pisano, Raffaele
Borghi, Luca
Springer Journals — Jul 1, 2015
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Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
ISBN
978-94-017-9644-6
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53 –68
DOI
10.1007/978-94-017-9645-3_4
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Abstract

[Triumphant medicine in the late nineteenth and in the first half of the twentieth centuries involved increasing amounts of technology and engineering skills. The present contribution gives an example of such a momentous and irreversible convergence between two specific fields: surgery and mechanical engineering. In less than 50 years (c.1930–1980) several “scientific couples” (usually a visionary surgeon and an above-average-skilled engineer) had made a reality of a long dreamed “impossibility” of modern medicine such as open-heart surgery. This contribution will focus not only on technical details but also on the “human factor” which was the hallmark of the protagonists of this revolution.]

Published: Jul 1, 2015

Keywords: Medicine and technology; Cardiac surgery; Human factor

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