Medicine by design
Subtitle: the practice and promise of biomedical engineering
By: Fen Montaigne.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Biomedical Engineering -- trends -- Case Reports; Biomedical Engineering -- trends -- Popular Works
Genres: Case Reports.; Popular Works.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The rise of a new field; title: The new generation; title: Beyond the artificial heart; title: The pump and its pipes; title: To breathe again; title: The wires; title: Moving into the brain; title: The da Vinci; title: The virtual surgeon; title: Bones; title: The pictures; title: Seeing the unseen; title: The business; title: Convergence; title: Tissues; title: Body builders; title: The road ahead.