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the edge of medicine the technology that will change our lives
p at a time when we are all gravely concerned about the cost of health care medical technology paradoxically is expanding and evolving as never before . experts agree that we are entering a golden age when many clinical treatments that today seem like science fiction will one day become part of a routine trip to the doctor . university of pennsylvania medical school professor william hanson offers intimate true life stories that revise our understanding of mortality . from brainwave operated wheelchairs to electronic noses that diagnose disease to surgery by remote controlled robots and nanoscale machines that will identify and kill individual malignant cells this is a startling and exciting account of innovations that will directly affect our health .