Medicine by design : the practice and promise of biomedical engineering /

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Author / Creator:Montaigne, Fen.
Imprint:Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Description:xi, 229 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6207239
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ISBN:0801883474 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780801883477
Notes:Includes index.
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. 1. The rise of a new field
  • Ch. 2. The new generation
  • Ch. 3. Beyond the artificial heart
  • Ch. 4. The pump and its pipes
  • Ch. 5. To breathe again
  • Ch. 6. The wires
  • Ch. 7. Moving into the brain
  • Ch. 8. The da Vinci
  • Ch. 9. The virtual surgeon
  • Ch. 10. Bones
  • Ch. 11. The pictures
  • Ch. 12. Seeing the unseen
  • Ch. 13. The business
  • Ch. 14. Weng's wars
  • Ch. 15. Tissues
  • Ch. 16. Body builders
  • Ch. 17. The road ahead.