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Cardiac pacing, 1960-1985: a quarter century of medical and industrial innovation.
TLDR
One important aspect of the broader transformation of cardiovascular medicine: the development of pacemaker technology to treat bradyarrhythmias is discussed, particularly in the sources of innovation in pacing, a field known for rapid shifts in hardware and techniques.
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:The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention
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Machines in Our Hearts: The Cardiac Pacemaker, the Implantable Defibrillator, and American Health Care
TLDR
The Pacemaker Becomes a Flexible Machine and Preventing Sudden Cardiac Death: The Implantable Defibrillator is presented.
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The invention and reinvention of cardiac pacing.
  • K. Jeffrey
  • Medicine
    Cardiology clinics
  • 1 November 1992
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The Mysterious Fate of Hyman's Pacemaker
TLDR
The work of Albert S. Hyman has for decades particularly intrigued historians of heart electrostimulation, because in the early 1930s Hyman invented an artificial pacemaker and this article attempts to reconstruct Hyman’s ideas and purposes, describe the workings and limitations of the invention, and contribute information that may help to illuminate the mysterious fate of Hyman's pacemaker.
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The Next Step in Cardiac Pacing: The View From 1958
  • K. Jeffrey
  • Medicine
    Pacing and clinical electrophysiology : PACE
  • 1 June 1992
TLDR
The Rockefeller conference illustrates the observation that cardiac pacing has undergone several major redefinitions, and is rarely a smooth one but involves uncertainty, intense debate, and explicit choice.
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Machines in our hearts
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Pacing the heart: growth and redefinition of a medical technology, 1952-1975.
  • K. Jeffrey
  • Medicine
    Technology and culture
  • 1 July 1995
TLDR
Les medecins ne l'utilisent plus uniquement en situation d'urgence, mais egalement pour reguler de facon permanente les troubles cardiaques chroniques.
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Marriage, Career, and Feminine Ideology in Nineteenth-Century America: Reconstructing the Marital Experience of Lydia Maria Child, 1828-1874
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Understanding Quantitative History
Quantitative analysis is a fundamental mode of thought in the modern world, and quantitative reasoning is one of the most powerful tools available for the study and interpretation of historical…
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