In her 1976 Annual Review of Sociology review on advanced medical technologies, Renée Fox (1976) linked the proliferation of medical technologies to the emergence of the field of bioethics and defined the distinct task of sociologists to examine the social fallout and opportunities of organ transplantation, dialysis, genetics, and medical experimentation. While health technologies have been singled out for decades as central actors in health care, their role in creating and perpetuating health inequities has been of more recent sociological interest. Still, diffusion studies may explain why health technologies provide a benefit windfall for early adopters, carrying over into social stratification if some groups are more likely to adopt than others ( Rogers 2003). Considering the disregard for the technology's rationale, it is unsurprising that a later study showed the importance of contextual factors in the diffusion of tetracycline such as an intensive marketing campaign with aggressive pricing, rendering social influence largely a methodological artifact ( Van den Bulte & Lilien 2001). 1 Yet, while it was critical as a diffusion and social network study, the researchers ignored why the drug was developed, alternative treatments available to clinicians, and the medical needs of patients ( Blume 2013). (1966) examined the diffusion of the antibiotic tetracycline and established the importance of influencers: early adopters of new technologies spreading the technologies in their networks through a process of social contagion following the classic S-curve of adoption. In one of the pioneering studies of health technologies, Coleman et al.
2012), but these developments are not necessarily causally linked.Įarly sociologists, swept up by the optimism that technologies would advance medicine, paid little attention to the health rationale behind technologies. Indeed, at the same time that health technologies continue to revolutionize health care, health disparities in the United States have mostly been increasing ( Bleich et al.
Technologies may improve the quality of some lives and harm others, and we are interested in the social sorting and patterning of technological changes. To limit this review's ambit, we take seriously the mandate of health technologies to “solve a health problem and improve quality of lives” and are particularly interested in how directly or indirectly technologies generate, perpetuate, or reduce health inequities.
With such a broad definitional scope, anything of interest to medical professionals, health policy makers, and sociologists can be studied through health technologies. They include physical objects, procedures, social interventions, and health-care systems.
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Technologies range from everyday tools to the most advanced genomic and robot-assisted surgery devices and span the full range of care: disease prevention, diagnosis, monitoring, prognosis, and treatment. The World Health Organization defines health technologies as the “application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of lives” ( WHO 2007, p. It is easy to see White has no perpetual.From pregnancy tests and folic acid supplements to ultrasounds at prenatal visits, health technologies permeate our lives from before we are born until we die. His compensation is still overwhelming! 36.Qb4 h2 37.Rh1 Rg1 38.Rxh2 Bxh2 39.Qxc4 d2 40.Qe2 Bf4 41.Qe6+ Kf8 42.Qc8+ Kg7 43.Qe6 Bg5 44.f4 Bf6 45.f5 Bxc3 46.fxg6 d1Q And Black's sacrificed queen returns from the dead! White gave a few more checks in the ensuing time scramble before capitulating. But these two pawns are passed and far advanced Black has the bishop pair, and numerous other threats. 18.fxg6 Bf5+ 19.Ka1 Bxg6 20.h4 h5 An important move. Black wants to secure the bishop's on the b1-h7 diagonal and also wants to recapture, after a future Nd3, with the pawn, not the bishop! 21.Be2 Nd3 22.Bxd3 cxd3. 23.Rd1 Rf4 All systems go! White realizes that the threat of Rfb4 is much more dangerous than the threat to the 'h' pawn. 12.Qxa5 Nxe3 13.Rc1 Nxc4 14.Rxc4 bxc4 15.d5 15.Rb8 16.Nc3 f5 17.exf5 Ne5! Obviously activation is far more important than material in this situation. It will provide the proper reference, and perhaps illustrate even more clearly that Black has great play no matter how White continues. Before continuing with the Sarkar - Reverby game, I suggest the reader first play through the Bobotsov - Tal 'stem' game.
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