Crangle, Richard

Healing tools : the development of medical theories, innovations & the quest for health / Richard Crangle. - Salt Lake City, Utah : Cranstone publishing house, c2003. - xxvi, 189 p. ; 22 cm. - Invention works series; vol. 3 .

Contents;

I. Healing and health in the ancient world: Nature and nurture models

II. Implications of early medical models: Historical legacies and their best power tools

III. Medical models extended to medical devices: Function following form

IV. Pain, definitions, theory and practice: Where it hurts and why

V. Causes of diseases, prevention and treatment tools: An ounce of prevention may equal a pound of cure

VI. Germs, up close and personal: Scientific methods, epidemiology and medicalization of society

VII. Genetics and medical predictability: The revolution of science and technology in pea pod

VIII. The modern medical profession: Innovation within business, legal, military and government systems - New wine in old skins?

IX. The medical device process of moving innovations from product concepts to commercialization: Reducing mind to what matters

X. Medical devices, regulations and medical practice: Walking the talking



Bibliography : p. 183-187.

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