CHRISTOPHER CRENNER is Professor and Hudson-Major Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in Medical History.

[T]he editors usefully introduce newer historiographical and sociological studies and models that treat innovations as rather more than the light bulb moment. They particularly stress how successful innovations should be studied in the context of their rejected alternatives. Anyone interested in the subject should add it to their bibliography.

• Technological Change in Surgery: An Introductory EssayInimitable Innovation: Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and the Renewal of Surgery, 1822-1847Defining Difference: Competing Forms of Ovarian Surgery in the Nineteenth Century"Making Bad Boys Good": Brain Surgery and the Juvenile Court in Progressive Era AmericaProsthetic Imaginaries: Spinal Surgery and Innovation from the Patient's PerspectiveDisruptive Potential: The "Landmark" REMATCH Trial, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Technology, and the Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure in the United StatesPlacebos and the Progress of SurgerySurgical Practice and the Reconstruction of the Therapeutic Niche: The Case of Myocardial RevascularizationBibliography of Secondary SourcesList of ContributorsIndex

CHRISTOPHER CRENNER is Professor and Hudson-Major Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in Medical History.

[T]he editors usefully introduce newer historiographical and sociological studies and models that treat innovations as rather more than the light bulb moment. They particularly stress how successful innovations should be studied in the context of their rejected alternatives. Anyone interested in the subject should add it to their bibliography.

• Technological Change in Surgery: An Introductory EssayInimitable Innovation: Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and the Renewal of Surgery, 1822-1847Defining Difference: Competing Forms of Ovarian Surgery in the Nineteenth Century"Making Bad Boys Good": Brain Surgery and the Juvenile Court in Progressive Era AmericaProsthetic Imaginaries: Spinal Surgery and Innovation from the Patient's PerspectiveDisruptive Potential: The "Landmark" REMATCH Trial, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Technology, and the Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure in the United StatesPlacebos and the Progress of SurgerySurgical Practice and the Reconstruction of the Therapeutic Niche: The Case of Myocardial RevascularizationBibliography of Secondary SourcesList of ContributorsIndex

CHRISTOPHER CRENNER is Professor and Hudson-Major Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He is series editor of the University of Rochester Press' series Rochester Studies in Medical History.

[T]he editors usefully introduce newer historiographical and sociological studies and models that treat innovations as rather more than the light bulb moment. They particularly stress how successful innovations should be studied in the context of their rejected alternatives. Anyone interested in the subject should add it to their bibliography.

• Technological Change in Surgery: An Introductory EssayInimitable Innovation: Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach and the Renewal of Surgery, 1822-1847Defining Difference: Competing Forms of Ovarian Surgery in the Nineteenth Century"Making Bad Boys Good": Brain Surgery and the Juvenile Court in Progressive Era AmericaProsthetic Imaginaries: Spinal Surgery and Innovation from the Patient's PerspectiveDisruptive Potential: The "Landmark" REMATCH Trial, Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Technology, and the Surgical Treatment of Heart Failure in the United StatesPlacebos and the Progress of SurgerySurgical Practice and the Reconstruction of the Therapeutic Niche: The Case of Myocardial RevascularizationBibliography of Secondary SourcesList of ContributorsIndex