Rethinking the Clinical Gaze: Patient-centred Innovation in Paediatric Neurology

This volume draws on medical sociology and science and technology studies to develop a novel conceptual framework for understanding innovation processes, using the case study of deep brain stimulation in paediatric neurology.

It addresses key questions, including: How are promising and potentially disruptive new health technologies integrated into busy resource-constrained clinical contexts?

What activities are involved in establishing a new clinical service?

How do social and cultural forces shape these services, and importantly, how are understandings of 'health' and 'illness' reconfigured in the process?