Book ID: CBB000111967

The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention (2000)

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Greatbatch, Wilson (Author)


Prometheus Books


Publication Date: 2000
Edition Details: Foreword by Seymour Furman
Physical Details: 260 pp., frontis., illus., figs., tables, apps., index
Language: English

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Review Jeffrey, Kirk (2003) Review of "The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Murray, Susan
Garber, Ken
Belfiore, Michael
Quinn, Jim
Zwicker, Katherine Jane
Young, Allan
Journals
American Heritage of Invention and Technology
Technology and Culture
Journal of Medical Biography
Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology
British Journal for the History of Science
Publishers
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of Alberta (Canada)
State University of New York at Stony Brook
State University of New York at Buffalo
McGill University (Canada)
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Medical technology
Medicine
Inventors and invention
Technology
Biomedical technology
Heart, artificial
People
Greenfield, Lazar
Free, Helen M.
Mansfield, Peter
Kolff, Willem Johan
Greatbatch, Wilson
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
Places
United States
Peru
Americas
Netherlands
Institutions
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
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