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Towards the virtual physiological human: The living human project
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Viceconti, Marco Taddei, Fulvia Petrone, Marco Galizia, Stefania Jan, Serge L. Van Sint Clapworthy, Gordon |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | One limitation of western medicine is that specialisation causes the medical professional to focus on specific parts of the human body, which tends to result in the systemic nature of our physiology being overlooked. This is a cultural, educational, but also a technological and an organisational problem. Everything, from the cost model of healthcare to medical imaging technology, is organised around this partitioning of the human body. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://technologies.kmi.open.ac.uk/irs/resources/CMMBE2006/pap_CMBBE2006_viceconti.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |