Medicine by design : the practice and promise of biomedical engineering / Fen Montaigne.

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

xi, 229 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index.

The rise of a new field -- The new generation -- Beyond the artificial heart -- The pump and its pipes -- To breathe again -- The wires -- Moving into the brain -- The da Vinci -- The virtual surgeon -- Bones -- The pictures -- Seeing the unseen -- The business -- Weng's wars -- Tissues -- Body builders -- The road ahead.