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Patient-Centric Technologies

A Clinical-Cultural Perspective

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Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology

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The concept of medical technology generally refers to tools and skills that are doctor-centered. Discussion tends to focus on “hard” technologies and hardware (for example, radiation and life-support systems rather than “softer” modalities more directly related to human skills). Doctor-centric technologies are controlled by physicians in several important ways: access to their use is at the discretion of doctors; knowledge of how and when to use them is also controlled by doctors or their authorized extenders; and they tend to be utilized in what Goffman (1961) terms the “workshops of physicians,” that is, hospitals.

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Levy, S.M., Howard, J. (1982). Patient-Centric Technologies. In: Millon, T., Green, C.J., Meagher, R.B. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3412-5_23

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