Medicine By Design - The Practice and Promise of Biomedical Engineering

Informationen zum Autor Fen Montaigne is a freelance writer who often contributes to National Geographic . His previous books include Surviving Galeras (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Reeling in Russia (St. Martin's, 1998), and The First Directorate (St. Martin's, 1994). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Through the stories of patients whose lives have been saved and improved by biomedical devices! Montaigne reveals the marriage of medicine and engineering to be one of society's greatest advances.

Product details

• Authors: Fen Montaigne
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.06.2006
• EAN: 9780801883477
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8347-7
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; MEDICAL / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Biomedical, History of Medicine, Biology, life sciences, History of engineering & technology, Biomedical engineering