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21st-Century Miracle Medicine

RoboSurgery, Wonder Cures, and the Quest for Immortality

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  • © 1997

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  1. Alexandra Wyke
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. A Whirlwind Tour

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 1-20

  3. The Failures of 20th-Century Medicine

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 21-42

  4. Tongue-Tied Medicine

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 43-55

  5. Medicine Goes Digital

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 57-83

  6. Beyond X Rays

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 85-104

  7. Enter Robodoc

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 105-125

  8. Cyberspace Surgery

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 127-144

  9. Engineering Health

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 145-166

  10. Healthcare on the Brink

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 167-189

  11. The Key is Technology

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 191-209

  12. The Year 2050

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 211-238

  13. The Era of Self-Care

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 239-254

  14. The Doctors’ Dilemma

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 255-277

  15. Against Change

    • Alexandra Wyke
    Pages 279-303

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 305-352
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About this book

The future of healthcare may be very simple. You will sit in your living room chair and drink your tea, coffee, and beer. As you sip, the chair will absorb an encyclopedia of knowledge about your physical state of affairs. A life-management computer in your kitchen will integrate the data and then display it for you on your watch face. A daily physical work-up precisely tailored to your body will pop up on the display, showing you what you have to do over the next 24 hours to avoid all the major disease processes currently plaguing the world. This comprehensive data bank will draw on all the world's medical databases, which have been integrated to help you prevent disease. You will rise from your chair and undertake an exact modicum of exercise tailored to your requirements, performing proscribed activities that will build your stamina precisely based on your "chair data. " The health status-monitoring sweatshirt that you wear during exercise will continue its analysis throughout the day. Your diet will be calibrated from your medical database, which vii viii 21st-CENTURY MIRACLE MEDICINE will be stored in a now-common bathroom appliance, the special preventive care server. In fact, clothed in your own domestic decor, the home will become the most sophisticated medical center in the world. All you have to do is keep going, as medicine becomes an invisible service, and your life will be effortlessly extended ten to twenty years.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: 21st-Century Miracle Medicine

  • Book Subtitle: RoboSurgery, Wonder Cures, and the Quest for Immortality

  • Authors: Alexandra Wyke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3466-6

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Alexandra Wyke 1997

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-45565-0Published: 01 January 1997

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-3466-6Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIII, 352

  • Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Popular Science in Medicine and Health, Medicine/Public Health, general

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