Journal
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
Volume 131, Issue -, Pages 98-106Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2015.02.036
Keywords
United Kingdom; Technological innovation; Reconfiguration; Adoption; Healthcare practice; Diagnostic technology; Breast cancer
Funding
- National Institute of Health Research (HSDR) [08/1820/254]
- National Institute for Health Research [08/1820/254] Funding Source: researchfish
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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. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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