Skip to Content
Applied Nanotechnology
book

Applied Nanotechnology

by Jeremy Ramsden
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
200 pages
4h 38m
English
William Andrew
Content preview from Applied Nanotechnology

CHAPTER 8 Applications to Health

Nanomedicine is defined as the application of nanotechnology to human health. The dictionary definition of medicine is ”the science and art concerned with the cure, alleviation and prevention of disease, and with the restoration and preservation of health“. As one of the oldest of human activities accessory to survival, it has indeed made enormous strides during the millennia of human civilization. Its foremost concern is well captured by a phrase in the spirit of Hippocrates, “Primum non nocere”. During the past few hundred years, and especially during the past few decades, medicine has been characterized by enormous technization, with a concomitantly enormous expansion of its possibilities for curing disease. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Microfluidics and Nanotechnology

Microfluidics and Nanotechnology

Eric Lagally
Microforming Technology

Microforming Technology

Zhengyi Jiang, Jingwei Zhao, Haibo Xie
Applied Electro-Optics

Applied Electro-Optics

Louis Desmarais
Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water

Nanotechnology Applications for Clean Water

Mamadou Diallo, Jeremiah Duncan, Nora Savage, Anita Street, Richard Sustich

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780815520238