Life-enhancing Plastics: Plastics And Other Materials In Medical Applications

by W Anthony Holmes-walker

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Format Hardback or Cased Book

Book Series Series On Biomaterials And Bioengineering

ISBN-10 1860944620

ISBN-13 9781860944628

Publisher Imperial College Press

Imprint Imperial College Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 11th, 2004

Print length 232 Pages

Weight 450 grams

Dimensions 23.70 x 15.80 x 1.80 cms

Product Classification: Biomedical engineering Plastics & polymers technology

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This book enables readers without specialist knowledge to understand the ways in which materials can be used to enhance people's lives. The range is vast — from simple contact uses, through artificial limbs, to permanently implanted devices.To appreciate the medical applications of materials, it is necessary to understand why they are used. Therefore, a discussion on the nature and behaviour of materials is preceded by a survey of the evolution of modern surgical techniques. The effect of “foreign” materials on the body's immune system is then considered, followed by a study of specific uses of materials, including extra-corporeal machines and implanted devices.The last chapter deals with new and highly sophisticated techniques — including minimal access surgery, robotics, nanotechnology, natural polymers, and the growth of “artificial” organs — and concludes with a look at the future.

This book enables readers without specialist knowledge to understand the ways in which materials can be used to enhance people''s lives. The range is vast — from simple contact uses, through artificial limbs, to permanently implanted devices.To appreciate the medical applications of materials, it is necessary to understand why they are used. Therefore, a discussion on the nature and behaviour of materials is preceded by a survey of the evolution of modern surgical techniques. The effect of “foreign” materials on the body''s immune system is then considered, followed by a study of specific uses of materials, including extra-corporeal machines and implanted devices.The last chapter deals with new and highly sophisticated techniques — including minimal access surgery, robotics, nanotechnology, natural polymers, and the growth of “artificial” organs — and concludes with a look at the future.

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