Clinical Futures - Couverture souple

Peckham, Michael

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0727912313 ISBN 13 : 9780727912312

Editeur : BMJ Books, 1998

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Clinical Futures is a ground breaking book about the futureof medicine, about what medicine will be able to achieve over thenext half century, and about what we may be able to expect from thehealth service.

Leading clinical researchers have been invited to look at areasof clinical advance such as brain function, medical physics,cancer, ageing, child health, genetic engineering and heartdisease. Describing the various lines of promising research as weapproach the millennium, they consider a number of possible futurescenarios of health care, and have astonishing stories totell.

The authors try to anticipate what these futures may look like, what effects they may have on our lives, on society,on the health care professions, and on the NHS. They consider boththe promises and the threats, the dangers and the hope, as medicalscience increases its ability to manipulate our bodies and minds inthe pursuit of better health.

This book is equally fascinating for medical and non medicalreaders. In aiming it at both audiences the editors seek to open upthe ethical debates about the future of medicine.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Clinical Futures considers the future of health care from adifferent perspective: from the point of view of potentialdevelopments in the clinical sciences over the coming fifty years.It examines the interplay between economic, political and socialforces and the emerging clinical agendas. Six leading clinicians inmajor specialities discuss the import of new technology, economic,political and technographic changes on their specialty in 10,20 and50 years time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: BMJ Books
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0727912313
• ISBN 13: 9780727912312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
• Éditeur: Marinker Marshall
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible