Innovations in Health and Medicine

Jennifer Stanton works with the History Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She has published on the history of medical technologies, infectious disease research and policy, and African child health.

• Introduction, Jennifer Stanton; Part 1 Close neighbours; Chapter 1, Debbie Nicholson; Chapter 2 Organization, ethnicity and the British National Health Service, Helen Valier, Roberta Bivins; Part 2 Across nations; Chapter 3 The Western mode of nursing evangelized?, Aya Takahashi; Chapter 4 Acupuncture and innovation, Roberta Bivins; Chapter 5 Degrees of control: the spread of operative fracture treatment with metal implants, Thomas Schlich; Part 3 Re-innovation and the state; Chapter 6 Representing medicine, Kelly Loughlin; Chapter 7 The diffusion of two renal dialysis modalities in the UK, 1960s–1980s, Jennifer Stanton; Chapter 8 Midwifery re-innovation in New Zealand, Philippa Mein Smith; Chapter 9 French response to ‘innovation’, Martine Gabolde, Anne Marie Moulin;

'The collection provides us with interesting case studies, and index and a well-crafted intoduction. It will be useful not only to historians of medicine but also to those involved in planning and the running of health systems, who want to understand why some changes meet with more resistance and are ultimately less successful than others.' - Medical History, Oct 2003, Carsten Timmermann, University of Manchester