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Machines in our hearts : the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care
- Title
- Machines in our hearts : the cardiac pacemaker, the implantable defibrillator, and American health care / Kirk Jeffrey.
- Author
- Jeffrey, Kirk.
- Publication
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 370 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- "Today hundreds of thousands of Americans carry pacemakers and implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) within their bodies. These battery-powered machines - small computers, in fact - deliver electricity to the heart to correct dangerous disorders of the heartbeat. But few doctors, patients, or scholars know the history of these devices or how "heart-rhythm management" evolved into a multi-billion-dollar manufacturing and service industry." "Machines in Our Hearts tells the story of these two implantable medical devices. Kirk Jeffrey, a historian of science and technology, traces the development of knowledge about the human heartbeat and follows surgeons, cardiologists, and engineers as they invent and test a variety of electronic devices."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Geschichte 1980-2000
- Geschichte 1958-2000
- History
- Popular Work
- USA
- United States
- Defibrillatoren
- Pacemakers
- Implantierbarer Kardioverter-Defibrillator
- Herzschrittmacher
- Geschichte
- 44.85 cardiology
- Pacemaker, Artificial > history
- Defibrillators, Implantable > history
- Cardiac Pacing, Artificial > history
- Cardiac pacing > History
- Genre/Form
- Popular Work
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-352) and index.
- Contents
- 1. Heart block and the heart tickler -- 2. The war on heart disease and the invention of cardiac pacing -- 3. Heart surgeons redefine cardiac pacing -- 4. The multiple invention of implantable pacemakers -- 5. Making the pacemaker safe and reliable -- 6. The industrialization of the pacemaker -- 7. The pacemaker becomes a flexible machine -- 8. Slowing the pace -- 9. Competition through innovation -- 10. Preventing sudden cardiac death -- 11. The 1990s and beyond -- Appendices A-C -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliographical note -- Index.
- ISBN
- 0801865794
- 9780801865794
- LCCN
- 00009627
- OCLC
- ocm44132878
- 44132878
- SCSB-1246369
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library