The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care - Rilegato

Topol, Eric

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ISBN 10: 0465025501 ISBN 13: 9780465025503

Casa editrice: Basic Books, 2012

Riassunto

A leading professor of innovative medicine who conducted one of the first trials of a genetically engineered protein for treating heart attacks reveals how technologies in the areas of wireless internet, individual data and personal genomics are revolutionizing medicine in life-saving ways.

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As an introduction for the lay reader to the sophisticated digital technology now being applied to medical care, and as an explanation of the rapidly advancing science of medical genetics and the new revelations from the sequencing of the human genome, Topol's book is a tour de force. --Siddhartha Mukherjee, author of "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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""What happens when you combine cellular phone technology with the cellular aberrations in disease? Or create a bridge between the digital revolution with the medical revolution? How will minute biological sensors alter the way we treat lethal illnesses, such as heart attacks or cancer? This marvelous book by Eric Topol, a leading cardiologist, gene hunter and medical thinker, answers not just these questions, but many many more. Topol's analysis draws us to the very frontlines of medicine, and leaves us with a view of a landscape that is both foreign and daunting. He manages to recount this story in simple, lucid language--resulting in an enthralling and important book."
--Atul Gawande, M.D., author of The Checklist Manifesto

L'autore:

Eric J. Topol, M.D., is professor of innovative medicine and the director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute in La Jolla, California. Trained at Johns Hopkins University, he conducted one of the first trials of a genetically engineered protein for treating heart attacks, and was the founder of the world’s first cardiovascular gene bank at the Cleveland Clinic. He lives with his family in La Jolla, California.

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• Editore: Basic Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0465025501
• ISBN 13: 9780465025503
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 303