Machines in Medicine: The Medical Practice of the Future by D.B. Longmore

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Our problem, basically, is the impossibility of designing machines that in any way match the subtlety of living matter. We appreciate the inadequacy and we know that it is forced u pon us by a secondhand technology -- the crumbs from the tables of other branches of science and engineering. By way of encouragement I will add that I do not intend to write the whole book in this negative tone -- which is really why I began it that way. When I later enthuse about some machine or other and point to its elaborate ingenuity (or to its beautiful simplicity) my enthusiasm is relative -- based in the 1960s. - p. 11. This 1969 Aldus Paperback is in good condition. Cover has yellowed. ISBN: 9780490001329 SKU: 1539851 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book. Show more