Implanting a digital device to provide healthcare isn't a science-fiction topic anymore. Since the first pacemakers had been surgically implanted in human body 60 years ago, there's a significant increase of different types of digital devices added to the body for a eHealth purpose. Prosthetic Digital Devices in the Human Body provides a synthetic point of view of the different possibilities offered by these tools. This book is a complete review of the field of computerized human prostheticIt benefitS from a research of 6 years and 2 post doctoral surveys conducted in quite renown institutions in France and Japan (Sorbonne University, CNRS, Tokyo Institute of technology)The book provides an interdisciplinary approach, combining anthropology, sociology, psychology and philosophy INDICE: 1. Wearing a computerized prosthesis: a situation that is less and less exceptional 2. Living with a therapeutic active implanted device: the example of the pacemaker 3. Innovation and Evolution of Health Policies 4. Typology of currently existing computerized implants 5. The in and out: distinction between functionality and invasiveness
- ISBN: 978-1-78548-295-3
- Editorial: ISTE Press - Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 250
- Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2018
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés