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"In The Machine in the Nursery Jeffrey Baker examines the transformation that overtook the incubator after it arrived from France in the United States. He argues that the apparatus furnishes an example of how social and cultural factors can fundamentally alter the evolution of medical technology. The analysis centers on the interaction between the technology and its intended "target," the premature infant. To the extent that particular medical specialists in distinct institutions and cultures saw different populations of such infants, they were bound to interpret the incubator's purpose differently. The factors of institutional, professional, and national context--along with that of gender--were of special importance in shaping physicians' attitudes. Taken together, these elements enable us to understand the complex "branching" pattern that characterized development of the incubator in the early twentieth century."--JHU Press
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0801851734
Jeffrey P. Baker M.D., Ph.D.
1996 Johns Hopkins Univ Press
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