The Seven Laws of Folds, Bridgman George Brant

Автор: Roger Bridgman
Название: 1000 Inventions & Discoveries
ISBN: 0751339288 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780751339284
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
Цена: 1385 р.
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Автор: Perkins, Barbara Bridgman
Название: Cancer, radiation therapy and the market
ISBN: 1138285242 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138285248
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 16500 р.
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Описание: Appraising cancer as a major medical market in the 2010s, Wall Street investors placed their bets on single-technology treatment facilities costing $100-$300 million each. Critics inside medicine called the widely-publicized proton-center boom "crazy medicine and unsustainable public policy." There was no valid evidence, they claimed, that proton beams were more effective than less costly alternatives. But developers expected insurance to cover their centers’ staggeringly high costs and debts. Was speculation like this new to health care? Cancer, Radiation Therapy, and the Market shows how the radiation therapy specialty in the United States (later called radiation oncology) coevolved with its device industry throughout the twentieth-century. Academic engineers and physicians acquired financing to develop increasingly powerful radiation devices, initiated companies to manufacture the devices competitively, and designed hospital and freestanding procedure units to utilize them. In the process, they incorporated market strategies into medical organization and practice. Although palliative benefits and striking tumor reductions fueled hopes of curing cancer, scientific research all too often found serious patient harm and disappointing beneficial impact on cancer survival. This thoroughly documented and provocative inquiry concludes that public health policy needs to re-evaluate market-driven high-tech medicine and build evidence-based health care systems.

Автор: Bridgman R
Название: 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries
ISBN: 146542038X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781465420381
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 1570 р.
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Описание: From making fire to building the gadgets of the 21st century, uncover the stories behind the remarkable ideas and devices that have shaped our world in 1,000 Inventions and Discoveries.

This revised and updated edition brings this comprehensive review of humanity's greatest ideas up to date. Innovations in science, space, technology, transportation, medicine, mathematics, and language are covered, along with a timeline of history highlighting all inventions and discoveries from the airbag to DNA, lie detectors to hormones, and money to the signs of the zodiac. Feature boxes delve into the details of the lives of Isaac Newton, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein and more, while amazing images and archive materials bring their achievements to life.