Life-Enhancing Plastics
Subtitle: Plastics and Other Materials in Medical Applications (Series on Biomaterials and Bioengineering)
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: September 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9781860944628
Subjects: Biomedical engineering; Plastics & polymers technology; Science; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Biotechnology; Pharmacology; Biocompatible Materials; Plastics; Prostheses and Implants
First sentence: Whilst the main thrust of this book is on the ways in which materials, especially plastics, can be used to solve problems in surgery and medicine, I felt it would be valuable-particularly for those readers without a medical background-to provide a general overview of the principal surgical procedures, and the ways in which surgeons have developed and improved their art.