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Laparoscopy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances

By: Amar Bhidé, Caitlin N. Bowler and Srikant M. Datar
  • Format:Print
  • | Language:English
  • | Pages:20
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Abstract

We describe how operations through laparoscopes—tubular instruments inserted into abdominal cavities—revolutionized gynecological and other surgeries inside the abdomen such as gall bladder removal. Specifically, we chronicle the: 1) foundational technologies and procedures for laparoscopy developed by gynecologists from the 1940s through the 1970s. 2) extension of laparoscopy to gallbladder removal in the late 1980s, 3) adoption of the technique in the 1990s.

Keywords

Health Care and Treatment; Technological Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Technology Adoption; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Invention; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

Citation

Bhidé, Amar, Caitlin N. Bowler, and Srikant M. Datar. "Laparoscopy: Case Histories of Significant Medical Advances." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-008, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
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Srikant M. Datar

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