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Medicine by design : the practice and promise of biomedical engineering / Fen Montaigne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Montaigne, Fen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biomedical engineering.
- Biomedical Engineering--trends.
- Medical Subjects:
- Biomedical Engineering--trends.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Biomedical engineering is one of the fastest-moving areas in medicine. From the almost commonplace pacemaker to the latest generation of artificial hearts, Montaigne tells the stories of pioneering patients, engineers, and surgeons. Taking the reader behind the scenes of a dozen of America's leading centers of biomedical engineering, Montaigne recounts the field's history while describing cutting-edge work in medical imaging, orthopedics, cardiovascular care, neurological therapies, and genetics.
- Contents:
- The rise of a new field
- The new generation
- Beyond the artificial heart
- The pump and its pipes
- To breathe again
- The wires
- Moving into the brain
- The da Vinci
- The virtual surgeon
- Bones
- The pictures
- Seeing the unseen
- The business
- Weng's wars
- Tissues
- Body builders
- The road ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0801883474
- OCLC:
- 61167755
- Publisher Number:
- 9780801883477
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