The engines of Hippocrates: from the dawn of medicine to medical and pharmaceutical informatics

This book demonstrates the rise of information based medicine from a global perspective, then goes on to detail its potential and applications for improvedpharmaceutical and biomedical science. The first half of the book covers the history of medicine, including a view of how human civilization relates to genomics and the origins of infectious disease from proximity with domesticated animals and livestock. The second half illustrates how information technology can achieve its goal of improving the pharmaceutical and medical sciences. Topics include healthcare as an industry, managed and social healthcare, the rise of healthcare insurance, privacy, medical ethics and Institutional Review Boards, the role of the FDA, medical accidents, evidence based medicine, alternative medicine, healthcare system information architectures, natural and malicious biothreat, drug and vaccine design, and nanotechnology.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-28953-2
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 598
• Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés