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Health Industrialization
1st Edition - June 2, 2016
Author: Bruno Salgues
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9781785481475
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eBook ISBN:9780081017937
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Health Industrialization discusses the way healthcare professionals distinguish between medicine, surgery, and diet and lifestyle guidelines. In other words, the ways that medi…Read more
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Health Industrialization discusses the way healthcare professionals distinguish between medicine, surgery, and diet and lifestyle guidelines. In other words, the ways that medicine aims to provide quantity of life.
Men and women would rather remain in good health as long as possible and compensate for the deficiencies that crop up to the best of their abilities. Hence, they are looking for quality of life that results in tensions brought on by different objectives. This book hypothesizes that this tension is the cause of an industrialization of medicine or health that depends to a degree on the point-of-view we choose.
Offers the key to understanding how this new form of industry will spread to create real change in the field of patient care
Explores ethical issues and analyzes the various technologies at work in this transformation
Anyone interacting with information technology in a healthcare setting. The audience includes graduate students and fellows in medical informatics, physicians, nurses, managers, programmers, analysts, and administrators. In addition, it will be of interest to information technology professionals in related industries such as pharmaceutical and health insurance companies.
2.1 Medical innovation as a factor of industrialization
2.2 The notion of apparatus
2.3 The meaning of apparatus
2.4 The “plus” man
2.5 Science, technology, art and industrialization
3: Industrialization: its Obstacles and its Rules
Abstract:
3.1 The opposition of the actors in the health industry as an obstacle
3.2 A comparison with other economic sectors
4: Acceptability and Diffusion
Abstract:
4.1 The criteria of the analysis
4.2 The models of adoption of medical technologies
4.3 Some definitions
5: The Dynamics of Diffusion
Abstract:
5.1 The basis for the dynamics of industrialization
5.2 The advent of new concepts
5.3 Attempting to reduce complexity
6: Digital Identity and Health
Abstract:
6.1 Digital identity
6.2 The identity crisis of the information-centric society
6.3 Cards as new kinds of identities
6.4 The genetic revolution as an ID carrier
7: Access to Information, Access to Health
Abstract:
7.1 The access revolution
7.2 The great “ICT and health” revolution
7.3 Assessment tools
8: Mondialisation, the Maker of Biopower
Abstract:
8.1 Mondialisation versus globalization (definition)
8.2 Are there temporal paradoxes?
9: Belief, Myth and Biopower
Abstract:
9.1 The problem of belief
9.2 Critique of the notion of biopower
9.3 Equality and tyrannical kinds of power
9.4 Conception or has man become yet another object?
9.5 Marc Augé’s four observations about identity
9.6 Identity, individual and culture
9.7 The purchase of citizenship
10: Trust
Abstract:
10.1 The source of trust
10.2 A resilient approach
10.3 The creative man
10.4 The dynamic approach (GEMS)
11: The Social Reality
Abstract:
11.1 Singularist and transhumanist theories
11.2 DNA microarrays and their use
11.3 The economic reality
11.4 The new industrialized health
11.5 Debating the model
12: The Technologies that Could Change Everything
Abstract:
12.1 Biotechnology
12.2 Energy and material technologies
12.3 Materials
12.4 The “nano” world
12.5 Information technology
12.6 Online data and “big data”
12.7 Robots and robotics
12.8 Selection technologies
12.9 Health and technological flops
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
No. of pages: 212
Language: English
Edition: 1
Published: June 2, 2016
Imprint: ISTE Press - Elsevier
Hardback ISBN: 9781785481475
eBook ISBN: 9780081017937
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Bruno Salgues
Bruno Salgues is Director of Studies of Institut Mines-Télécom in Paris, France. He is also a University lecturer and researcher at the TIC&Sante in Montpellier.