Maniatopoulos, Gregory, 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, 131. pp. 98-106. ISSN 0277-9536
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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: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | United Kingdom, Technological innovation, Reconfiguration, Adoption, Healthcare practice, Diagnostic technology, Breast cancer |
| Subjects: | B800 Medical Technology B900 Others in Subjects allied to Medicine L900 Others in Social studies |
| Department: | Faculties > Business and Law > Newcastle Business School |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2020 10:29 |
| Last Modified: | 31 Jul 2021 13:00 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/44418 |
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