@article {Timmermans:March 2001:0952-1909:108,
	author = "Timmermans S.",
	title = "Hearts Too Good to Die: Claude S. Beck's Contributions to Life-Saving",
	journal = "The Journal of Historical Sociology",
	volume = "14",
	year = "March 2001",
	abstract = "<P>This paper explores the role of Western Reserve University cardiac surgeon Claude S. Beck in convincing the world of the merits of electric defibrillation to treat the life-threatening heart arrhythmia ventricular fibrillation. Before Beck, the method of electric defibrillation had been experimentally explored at least four times but it never caught on as a medical or first-aid life-saving technique. Beck succeeded because he synchronized three activities: he refined the technique and provided clinical applications, he built a communication infrastructure, and he formulated a vision of who should use the technique under what kind of circumstances.</P>",
	pages = "108-131(24)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/johs/2001/00000014/00000001/art00136"
}