Surgery, Science and Industry: A Revolution in Fracture Care, 1950s-1990s

By Thomas Schlich

Book Overview

This book charts the history of the worldwide introduction of an operative treatment method for broken bones, osteosynthesis, by a Swiss-based association, called AO. The success of the close cooperation between the AO's surgeons, scientists and manufacturers in establishing a complicated and risky technique as a standard treatment sheds light on the mechanisms of medical innovation at the crossroads of surgery, science and industry and the nature of modern medicine in general.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333993055
• ISBN13: 9780333993057
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 349 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 8.3"