Life-enhancing Plastics

Plastics And Other Materials In Medical Applications

By: W Anthony Holmes-walker

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Hardcover | 11 August 2004

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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.

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Non-Fiction Engineering & Technology Industrial Chemistry & Manufacturing Technologies Industrial Chemistry Plastics & Polymers Technology Medicine Pre-Clinical Medicine & Basic Sciences Nursing & Ancillary Services Biomedical Engineering Prosthetics Mechanical Engineering & Materials Materials Science

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Surgical techniques	p. 1
Material properties	p. 29
Materials in a hostile environment	p. 61
Contact applications	p. 71
Short term contact devices	p. 85
Medium term implants	p. 107
Permanent implants	p. 125
Load-bearing implants	p. 151
The tools of the surgeon	p. 169
Meeting new challenges	p. 185
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