Nanomedicine, Volume I - Softcover

Freitas, Robert A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1570596808 ISBN 13: 9781570596803

Publisher: CRC Press, 1999

Synopsis

Molecular nanotechnology has been defined as the three-dimensional positional control of molecular structure to create materials and devices to molecular precision. The human body is comprised of molecules, hence the availability of molecular nanotechnology will permit dramatic progress in human medical services. More than just an extension of "molecular medicine," nanomedicine will employ molecular machine systems to address medical problems, and will use molecular knowledge to maintain and improve human health at the molecular scale. Nanomedicine will have extraordinary and far-reaching implications for the medical profession, for the definition of disease, for the diagnosis and treatment of medical conditions including aging, for our very personal relationships with our own bodies and ultimately for the improvement and extension of natural human biological structure and function. This book will be published in three volumes over the course of several years. Readers wishing to keep up-to-date with the latest developments may visit the nanomedicine website maintained by the Foresight Institute (http://foresight.org/Nanomedicine/index.html).

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Review:

"Nanomedicine" is an endlessly impressive and uniquely important book, a gift from the future to us living in the present. -- Greg Fahy, PhD, Life Extension Magazine, October, 2000

All ... topics ... developed in considerable detail ... a thorough and fascinating exploration of a field that could bring enormous benefits. -- Robotica (2000) Vol. 18, pp 687-689, Cambridge Univ Press

About this edition

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1570596808
• ISBN 13: 9781570596803
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 534