03070namaa2200541uu 4500 doab29756 oapen 20260305123948.0 m o d cr|mn|---annan 210210s2016 xx |||||o ||| 0|eng d 9781138860346 oapen oapen eng dc KCC bicssc KJD bicssc KN bicssc MBG bicssc Ramlogan, Ronnie edt Medical Innovation: Science, technology and practice Taylor & Francis 2016 1 online resource (186 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Routledge International Studies in Health Economics Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star This book brings together a collection of empirical case studies featuring a wide spectrum of medical innovation. While there is no unique pathway to successful medical innovation, recurring and distinctive features can be observed across different areas of clinical practice. This book examines why medical practice develops so unevenly across and within areas of disease, and how this relates to the underlying conditions of innovation across areas of practice. The contributions contained in this volume adopt a dynamic perspective on medical innovation based on the notion that scientific understanding, technology and clinical practice co-evolve along the co-ordinated search for solutions to medical problems. The chapters follow an historical approach to emphasise that the advancement of medical know-how is a contested, nuanced process, and that it involves a variety of knowledge bases whose evolutionary paths are rooted in the contexts in which they emerge. This book will be of interest to researchers and practitioners concerned with medical innovation, management studies and the economics of innovation. Chapter 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at www.tandfebooks.com/openaccess. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. All rights reserved http://oapen.org/content/about-rights English Business innovation bicssc Industry and industrial studies bicssc Medical equipment and techniques bicssc Microeconomics bicssc clinical practice empirical case studies medical innovation Consoli, Davide edt Consoli, Davide oth Mina, Andrea edt Mina, Andrea oth R. Nelson, Richard edt R. Nelson, Richard oth Ramlogan, Ronnie oth DOAB Library. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/29756 0 Free-to-read: DOAB: description of the publication 92887 92887