By A. Faulkner
From bandage to the bioreactor, this booklet seems at 5 assorted machine applied sciences from inception to healthcare perform, drawing on scientific sociology, technology and expertise reports and political technological know-how. It examines "evidence," law and governance procedures, and numerous stakeholders in innovating the applied sciences that form overall healthiness care.
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My aim is to highlight some of the key insights and concepts that can be useful tools with which to approach the world of medical devices and healthcare innovation. First, however, it will be helpful to sound a note of warning about terminology. I am using the combined terminology of ‘society/technology’, which is intended to convey the close proximity of the concepts and the close empirically observable (or at least deducible) dynamics between particular technologies and particular manifestations of societal processes.
In the global view, and in a different classification system, Europe accounts for about 23 per cent of the total ‘healthcare equipment and supplies’ market. 9 billion in 2004 (Datamonitor, 2005). Nearly half of this value was accounted for by surgical and medical instruments subsectors. 6 billion, an increase of 15 per cent since its previous report. 5 per cent in the US – Eucomed, 2007c). The rate of growth (or decline) of different national markets is of course variable. For example, Datamonitor’s analysis of Europe shows that in the years up to 2004 Germany’s growth was relatively slow compared to France, Spain and the UK.
In order to tackle these questions, it is useful first to examine some of the concepts of society/technology dynamics developed in a range of social science studies over the last 20 years or so. This is the subject of the next chapter. 2 Approaching Technology Contemporary healthcare is technological healthcare. An adequate understanding of how medical technologies reach the healthcare system, and in what forms, must pay due attention to the activity of industrial sectors and political regulatory activity, as well as actors in the healthcare system, patients and citizens whose lives are touched by technology.
