Problem of Health Technology

<p>Health technology is a pivotal locus of change and controversy in health care systems, and <em>The Problem of Health Technology</em> offers a comprehensive and novel analysis of the topic. The book illuminates the scientific and policy arguments that are currently deployed in industrialized countries by addressing the perspectives of clinicians, health care managers, scholars, policymakers, patients, and industry. And by establishing a dialogue between two interdisciplinary fields--Health Technology Assessment and Science and Technology Studies--Pascale Lehoux argues for re-centering the debate around social and political questions rather than questions of affordability, thereby developing an alternative framework for thinking about the implications of health technology.</p> 1: Health Technology Assessment: Promises and Pitfalls; 2: What Do Technologies Do?; 3: What Do Humans Want and for Whom?; 4: Reconciling Competing Objectives; 5: An Alternative Framework; 6: Conclusion: Toward Better Innovations