TY  - BOOK
AU  - Baran,George R.
AU  - Kiani,Mohammad F.
AU  - Samuel,Solomon Praveen
TI  - Healthcare and biomedical technology in the 21st Century: an introduction for non-science majors 
SN  - 9781461485407
AV  - R 855.3 .B37 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Springer
KW  - Medical technology
KW  - Popular works
KW  - Biomedical engineering
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Is Technology the Cure for Soaring Demand and the High Costs of Healthcare? -- Science, Pseudoscience, and Not-Science: How do they Differ? -- Technology and Bioethics: What Can Scientists and Engineers Do, and What Should They Do? -- Inventing, Evaluating and Approving New Drugs and Devices -- A Visit to the Physician: Diagnoses and Enabling Technologies -- Properties of the Host (the Human Body) -- Properties and Behavior of Materials, and Some Design Considerations Too -- Biomaterials Applications in Medicine and Case Studies -- Cardiovascular Devices: Getting to the Heart of the Matter -- Clever Strategies for Controlled Drug Release and Targeted Drug Delivery -- Tissue Engineering:? Growing Replacement Human Tissue in the Lab -- Genetic Engineering -- A Trip to the Dentist -- Rehabilitation Technologies
ER  -