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The Technology That Will Change Our Lives
Palgrave Macmillan
October 2008
On Sale: October 14, 2008
256 pages
ISBN: 0230605753
EAN: 9780230605756
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Experts agree that we are entering the Golden Age of
Medicine, when our everyday experience of being ill and
getting better will be more like science fiction than
today’s routine trip to the doctor. Bill Hanson, director of the surgical intensive care unit
at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and an
inventor of medical technology, offers true-life and
intensely intimate stories about the way biotechnology is
changing people's lives.
• An electronic nose that detects infection, such as
pneumonia, based on a person’s breath
• Robots with appendages that can feel their way around
tissue, which will augment the hands of surgeons in the
operating room
• Computer health wizards that will advise and prescribe
through your home computer
• Computerized psychotherapists dispensing advice about
emotional problems
• Telehealth software that serves as a monitoring nurse for
difficult to manage chronic illnesses such as diabetes.
• Wheelchairs operated by reading electrical brainwaves for
patients with severe neurological deterioration. Bill Hanson describes the human genius that arrived at
these amazing discoveries, and how innovators are working
to take these feats to an even more technologically
advanced level. And more importantly, he discusses what the
human experience will be and how we can prepare ourselves
for the moral and ethical challenges that these awesome
changes will bring. This riveting and startling account
will make us revise our expectations of our own mortality.
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