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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