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Stanley Joel Reiser is known nationally and internationally for his scholarship and teaching in ethics, history, technology assessment, and health policy.

I'm Stanley Joel Reiser from the University of Texas Health Science Center, where we try to connect ethical action to the way inventive minds work.

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Medicine and the Reign of Technology

November 16,

This is now one of my new favorite one volume histories of medicine. Even though it concentrates on the development of technology in medicine, and the author's underlying concern from the beginning is that physicians have sacrificed much of their personal relationship with the patient by adopting technology, it is a great and detailed discussion of auscultation, microscopy, the ophthalmoscope, the EKG, the roentgenogram, clinical chemistry and more. All histories must mention RTH Laennec, relate a tired discovery story, leave the reader to assume that the technology was adopted immediately and without complaint and then move on to the next item on the list, but Professor Reiser discusses the environment that the technology developed in, what the known probable sources were, who disliked or refused to use the new technology and why, and how and when it came to be used in common practice. All fascinating stuff; real history. This book was published in so its discussion of computers is dated in some ways, but in its essence nothing is really lost. As a personal complaint only, I think the book would be strengthened by more mention of the deleterious effects of the philosophy of mass automated screening of normal people - the fa

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John Lienhard presents guest Stanley Reiser

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While Congress grapples with making health insurance more available for all Americans, a leading specialist on health policy and medical technology told a AAAS seminar that there also is an urgent need for health care professionals to change the way medicine is practiced.

Stanley Joel Reiser

Stanley Joel Reiser, clinical professor of health care sciences and health policy at The George Washington University, has devoted more than three decades to the study of how technology affects the delivery and quality of health care in the United States. He argues that doctors have become adept at treating disease but often at the expense of truly understanding the needs of their patients.

“In modern medicine, we often treat the disease fully and the patient partially,” Reiser said. “That is a formula for inadequate medical care.”

Reiser, the author of a landmark monograph in on the rise of technology in medicine, spoke at a 7 October seminar co-sponsored by the AAAS Archives and the Chemical Heritage Foundation's Center for Contemporary History and Policy. He is the author of a new book, “Technological Medicine: The Changing World of Doctors and Patients” (Cambridge University Press).

Modern doctors have become “geographers,” Reiser said, seeking illness in places throughout th