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Moving beyond local practice : reconfiguring the adoption of a breast cancer diagnostic technology
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Maniatopoulos, Greg, Procter, Rob, Llewellyn, Sue, Harvey, Gill and Boyd, Alan (2015) Moving beyond local practice : reconfiguring the adoption of a breast cancer diagnostic technology. Social Science & Medicine, Volume 131 . pp. 98-106. doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.036 ISSN 0277-9536.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.036
Abstract
This paper explores the ways in which technological innovation becomes adopted and incorporated into healthcare practice. Drawing upon the notion of ‘field of practices’, we examine how adoption is subject to spatially and temporally distributed reconfigurations across a multi-level set of practices, ranging from the policy level to the micro-level setting of individual action. The empirical backdrop is provided by a case study of the adoption of Breast Lymph Node Assay (BLNA), a diagnostic technology innovation for the treatment of breast cancer patients. Our aim is to contribute to the development of a more comprehensive analysis of the processes surrounding the adoption and incorporation of complex healthcare technologies into routine practice.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) R Medicine > RC Internal medicine > RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer) T Technology > T Technology (General) |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Medical technology , Medical innovations, Breast -- Cancer -- Treatment, Breast -- Cancer -- Diagnosis | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Social Science & Medicine | ||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||
ISSN: | 0277-9536 | ||||||
Official Date: | April 2015 | ||||||
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Volume: | Volume 131 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 9 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 98-106 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.036 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 9 June 2016 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 9 June 2016 | ||||||
Funder: | National Institute for Health Research (Great Britain) (NIHR) | ||||||
Grant number: | (HS&DR, 08/1820/254) |
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