Research and Markets: The Engines of Hippocrates: from the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics - a Unique, Integrative Look at Information-Based Medicine

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/c1e55f/the_engines_of_hip) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd's new report "The Engines of Hippocrates: From the Dawn of Medicine to Medical and Pharmaceutical Informatics" to their offering.

A unique, integrative look at information-based medicine

This book demonstrates the rise of information based medicine from a global perspective, then goes on to detail its potential and applications for improved pharmaceutical 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.

The convergence of medical science, biology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, healthcare, and information technology is revolutionizing medical and scientific practice, and has broader social implications still being understood. The Engines of Hippocrates provides a unique, integrative, and holistic look at the new paradigm of information-based medicine, covering a broad range of topics for a wide readership.

The authors take a comprehensive approach, examining the prehistory, history, and future of medicine and medical technology and its relation to information; how history led to such present-day discoveries as the structure of DNA, the human genome, and the discipline of bioinformatics; and what the future results of these discoveries may hold. Their far-ranging views are their own and not necessarily those of the IBM Corporation or other employers.

The Engines of Hippocrates helps readers understand:

• Forces shaping the pharmaceutical and biomedical industries today, including personalized medicine, genomics, data mining, and bionanotechnology
• The relationship between pharmaceutical science today and other disciplines such as philosophy of health, history, economics, mathematics, and computer science
• The integrated role alternative and non-Western medicines could play in a new, information-based medicine
• Practical, ethical, organizational, technological, and social problems of information-based medicine, along with a novel data-centric computing model and a self-adaptive software engineering model, and corresponding information technology architectures, including perspectives on sharing remote data efficiently and securely for the common good

An unmatched, cross-disciplinary perspective on the big picture of today and tomorrow's medicine, The Engines of Hippocrates provides a reference to interested readers both inside and outside the pharmaceutical and medical communities, as well as a peerless classroom supplement to students in a wide variety of disciplines

Key Topics Covered:

1. A Short Preview of Mankind, Medicine, Molecules, and Machines.

2. From Prehistory to Hippocrates.

3. The Road to the New Medicine.

4. The Imminent Challenge: Medicine as an Industry.

5. The Next Decade: Personalized Medicine and the Digital Patient Record.

6. Enforcing your Wishes: Medical Ethics, Consent, Privacy, and Information Technology.

7. Holistic Medicine and Information Technology.

8. Architecting It All.

9. Guardian Angels: Knowing our Molecules, Drug and Vaccine Design, Medical Decision Support, Medical Vigilance and Defense.

10. What Next? At One with the Engines of Hippocrates

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