Technology and the Welfare State: The Development of Health Care in Britain and America Book

	List of Tables
	Acknowledgements
	Introduction
Pt. I	Health Care and Technological Change
1	Technological Change and Social Service Production	3
	Health care and the development of welfare states	3
	Health care and the economy	6
	Technology and social service production	8
2	Technological Change and Health Care	27
	Health care: Defining the technological base of a social service	27
	Classifying health care technologies	30
	Health care technology as a dynamic process	34
	Examples of change in health care technology	49
3	Production, Consumption and Health Care Technology	68
	Location and control	68
	Technological change and the factors of production	76
	Technological change and consumption of health care	88
	Marketing innovations and consumption	89
	'Social innovation' and future health care production and consumption	97
4	Political Innovation and Health Care	104
	Direct public provision and funding	104
	Indirect action by government	110
	Government and convergence of health care systems?	120
5	Technological Change and Economic Cycles	124
	Innovation and economic cycles	124
	Health care innovation and long-wave cycles	128
	Government action, health care and long waves	135
Pt. II	Technology and the Welfare State
6	Technology and the Welfare State: A Missing Dimension	147
	Explanations for the welfare state	147
	Technology and health care: an overview	155
	Adding technology: an ingredient in 'cumulative synthesis' of knowledge building about the welfare state	167
	Innovation as a response to crisis in the welfare state	169
	References	194
	Additional reading	205
	Index	209