AIMC Topic: History, 20th Century

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A short history of robotic surgery.

Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
A concise review of the use of robotic technology to enhance surgery

Origins of Robotic Surgery: From Skepticism to Standard of Care.

JSLS : Journal of the Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgeons
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The uses of robotics in surgery were hypothesized as far back as 1967, but it took nearly 30 years and the nation's largest agency, the Department of Defense, in conjunction with innovative startups and established research...

The Evolution of Remote-Controlled Intramedullary Lengthening and Compression Nails.

Journal of orthopaedic trauma
The operative elongation of limbs has long been a goal of orthopaedic surgeons. Indeed, the very first external skeletal fixators, although designed for stabilization of displaced fractures, were also used to overcome the posttrauma shortening that s...

Networking Biology: The Origins of Sequence-Sharing Practices in Genomics.

Technology and culture
The wide sharing of biological data, especially nucleotide sequences, is now considered to be a key feature of genomics. Historians and sociologists have attempted to account for the rise of this sharing by pointing to precedents in model organism co...