Biomedical Engineering for Global Health - Cancer, Inequity, and Technology

"Explore the fundamentals of biomedical engineering technologies with this thought-provoking introduction, framed around modern-day global cancer inequities. Designed to equip students with all the critical, technical and ethical knowledge they need to excel, this is the ideal introduction for students in biomedical engineering and global health"--

List of contents

1. How Technology has Shaped Evolution of Health Care; 2. Technology and Cancer in the 21st Century; 3. Cervical Cancer - The Face of Inequity; 4. Point of Care Assays for Examining Body Fluids and Cells; 5. Point of Care Technologies for Imaging Applications; 6. New Approaches to Vaccination and Cancer Treatment; 7. From Technology to Translation; 8. Making Decisions Using Data Analytics; 9. Deep Learning; 10. The Evolution of Health Care in the 21st Century.

About the author

Nirmala Ramanujam is the Robert W. Carr Professor of Engineering and Professor of Cancer Pharmacology and Global Health at Duke University, and Founder of the Duke Center for Global Women's Health Technologies. She is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors, Optica, SPIE, and AIMBE.Brian Crouch is an Assistant Research Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Duke University and the Assistant Director of Research at the Duke Center for Global Women's Health Technologies.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Crouch, Brian (Duke University Crouch, Nirmala Ramanujam, Nirmala (Duke University Ramanujam
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2024
• EAN: 9781108833448
• ISBN: 978-1-108-83344-8
• No. of pages: 392
• Series: Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / Public Health, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, Public health & preventive medicine, Biomedical engineering, Medical Sociology, Public health and preventive medicine, For undergraduate education and equivalents