Titlebook: Medical Challenges for the New Millennium; An Interdisciplinary Stefan N. Willich (Professor and Director),Susanna Book 2001 Springer Scien

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Structural Changes in Health Care Systems — The Advent of “E-Healthcare”tor nowadays has in fact become a battlefield for lobbying players of the medical arena including patients, physicians, politicians, social scientists, and representatives of health insurance organizations, hospitals, pharmaceutical and other medical companies.

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Minimally Invasive Robotic Telesurgeryg the size of incisions to less than about 1cm or using catheters or endoscopes threaded through vessels, the gastrointestinal tract, or other tubular structures. Micro-mechanical technologies have great potential to allow access to regions now inaccessible, or to enhance the surgeon’s abilities in

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The Strange Case of Molecular Medicinets, but also in the mass media. Like many of the paradigm shifts that have characterized technical progress in the medical arena, the characterization of diseases at the level of genes and molecules is only the latest step in the search for the . frontier of medicine. Over the past centuries, medica

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Complementary Care in the United Statesskepticism and outright hostility; this has not changed. However, steadily increasing consumer demand for CAM, cost/benefit awareness, and a recognition of the limits of conventional western medicine are driving the process of integration.

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Ethical Dilemmas in Medicine at the Beginning and the End of Life obliged to employ all means to save and prolong life under all circumstances. Education and training of future providers was directed toward this goal, and admiration and prestige of health practitioners, primarily physicians, depended largely on their success as life savers.

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Book 2001 century as the target for a level of health that would permit all people of the world to lead a socially and economically productive life. ‘ At that (magic but arbitrary) date most infectious diseases and many chronic conditions, including diabetes and cancer, were expected to have been eradicated

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Minimally Invasive Robotic Telesurgeryapplications where current minimally invasive techniques do not permit the full range of human dexterity and perception. Key needs and applications in MIS are identified, and relevant technologies, methods, and systems issues in mechatronics are discussed. The authors’ milli-robotic telesurgical system for MIS of the abdomen is used as an example.