Customer Reviews

Biomaterials Science:: An Introduction to Materials in Medicine

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This is a well written book with something for just about everyone. There are parts geared directly to engineers, but issues like foreign body response are dealt with rigorously enough for the best bio geek. All classes of implantable devices are covered with a healthy dose of history to boot!

It was a dry read, but it was chock full of information on biomaterials. It made me proud to be a biomedical engineering student.

With the international edition sometimes it isn't clear which american edition it is, this is the 1st edition, and is missing A TON of stuff that is in later editions.

Paper back (brown cover) cheaper than hard cover (blue+black cover). But the difference is not the cover but they are 2 different editions. 1st edition is a bit outdated and chapters are not arranged in a user friendly manner. 2nd edition has a lot more up to date information and the way chapters are arranged makes more sense. Lots of information crammed into one so very difficult to pick out the important points.

I am very happy with this purchase, it came as described. It was worn but the condition was accurately described, it also came quickly.

...I was not impressed with the content of this book because of mistakes made in the data it reported ie. that polymers can't form crystalline structures. I also found that the equations presented in the text did not have detailed information and at times the explaination of how to use the equations were slight.
I was also disappointed in the fact that I had to buy a xerox copy from the book store on campus (my financal aid would not pay for a book purchased anywhere else) because the publisher stopped print production before the class started which left myself and several other students "hanging" with only the option of purchasing a cheap copy for nearly the price of the original. Now I am left with an expensive book that I can't even you as reference material for future courses nor can I sell it because it is a copy and lastly because it is no longer in print.