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Technology & Medicine

PROLOGUE

Technology And Medicine

PROLOGUE: From the advent of the scalpel to the mapping of the human genome, scientific and technological breakthroughs that feed the medical enterprise have grown increasingly sophisticated and sublime, with correspondingly greater power to serve the ends of medicine. Among the more spectacular developments of the twentieth century are the rise of electronic information and communications systems and the science of genetics. The former are transforming the ways in which patients and doctors use medical information and are reshaping physician-patient interactions, while the latter offers the promise of a revolution in therapeutic and diagnostic techniques that is the stuff of . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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