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The Transhumanist Reader
Wiley 2013; US$ 44.95The first authoritative and comprehensive survey of the origins and current state of transhumanist thinking The rapid pace of emerging technologies is playing an increasingly important role in overcoming fundamental human limitations. Featuring core writings by seminal thinkers in the speculative possibilities of the posthuman condition, essays address... more...
Innovations in Health and Medicine
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 178.00This volume brings together cutting edge research by historians from Britain, Germany, France, the US, Japan and New Zealand. Innovative in its approach to innovation, it focuses on diffusion and resistance, and organization as well as technology. The collection features issues such as control and compliance, professional power and economic constraint,... more...
Emerging Health Technology
Springer 2012; US$ 39.99This book reports cutting-edge cases of emerging health technologies. Some health care fields are experiencing paradigmatic shifts because of robotic technologies and the new relationships that they create in r-Health (r-Curing and r-Caring) activities. The book explores emerging health care technologies such as image-guided surgical robotics,... more...
The Economics of Medical Technology
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012; US$ 114.95Medical technology is profoundly important for individual health and, consequently, also for general welfare. However, because of the extensive regulation of the markets for healthcare goods and services, the development and application of medical technologies differs fundamentally from non-medical technological advances. This book looks at theoretical... more...
e-Health Across Borders Without Boundaries
IOS Press 2011; US$ 152.00In order to achieve and maintain cross-border interoperability of electronic health records systems, it is necessary to manage the continuous process of change and adaptation of many elements within and across electronic infrastructures in neighboring countries. This volume presents the proceedings of the 11th EFMI special topic conference entitled... more...
Analysis of Oriented Texture
Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2011; US$ 45.00The presence of oriented features in images often conveys important information about the scene or the objects contained; the analysis of oriented patterns is an important task in the general framework of image understanding. As in many other applications of computer vision, the general framework for the understanding of oriented features in images... more...
International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology; 23 - 26 September 2009 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Springer 2010; US$ 179.99This volume presents the contributions of the second International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology (Meditech), held in September 2009 in Cluj-Napoka, Romania. The papers of this Proceedings volume present new developments in Health Care Technology, Medical Devices, Measurement and Instrumentation, Medical Imaging,... more...
Technology and Medical Practice
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95The advanced technologies being used in diagnosis and care within modern medicine, whilst supporting and making medical practices possible, may also conflict with established traditions of medicine and care. The changes in medical practices bought about by the involvement of these artefacts highlights some interesting questions to be addressed in this... more...









