Technology and the Future of Health Care
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
Published: March 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781556482656
Subjects: Biomedical Engineering; Technological Innovations; Technology; Medical / Nursing; Science/Mathematics; Allied Health Services - Medical Technology; Health Care Delivery; Health systems & services; Impact of science & technology on society; Medical equipment & techniques; Technology: General Issues; Nanotechnology; Forecasting; Medical innovations; Medical technology; Technology, Medical
First sentence: Within the lifetime of an American physician born in 1827, local transportation changed from virtually the "hoof and sail" methods in use in the time of Homer; grain ceased to be cut in the state by thrusting the sickle into the ripened grain as in the days of Ruth and threshing done by trampling out by horses on the threshing-floor or by flail; getting a living and making a home ceased to be conducted under one roof by the majority of the American people; education ceased to be a luxury accessible only to the few; in his own field of medicine the X-ray, anesthetics, asepsis, and other developments tended to make the healing art a science; electricity, the telephone, telegraph and radio appeared; and the theory of evolution shook the theological cosmogony that had reigned for centuries.