Review
".. this book is the result of the 30-year career of the author....highly recommended ..." -- Iasi Polytechnic Magazine, 2000
"...the result of the 30year career of the author as student, researcher, and teacher, in the field...highly recommended..." -- Iasi Polytechnic Magazine, 2000
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comprehensive
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should grace the shelves of students, engineers, and clinicians who are interested in the evolving art of biomaterials." -- The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
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easily read
"...should grace the shelves of students, engineers, and clinicians who are interested in the evolving art of biomaterials. -- The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery
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extremely useful to those in the medical device area
.helpful to students and others new to this field." -- Journal of Controlled Release
Praise for previous editions. . . . . .very comprehensive, thorough, easy to use. . .the most definitive work yet on this subject.
---Journal of Testing and Evaluation
. . .brings together a vast amount of carefully thought out, revised and updated information. . .. . . .immensely detailed, clearly illustrated, and very useful. . .. . . .essential reading.
---Annals of Biomedical Engineering
. . .each chapter is crisp.
---Journal of the Indian Institute of Science
. . .Jonathan Black is a gifted writer whose book can be easily read by individuals who have basic scientific background and want to obtain some first-hand knowledge of a very complicated subject.
---Journal of the American Chemical Society
. . .recognizes the progress made in the past decade in the field of biomaterials.
---Journal of Clinical Engineering
. . .an excellent introduction. . .. . . .provides a very easy approach.
---European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics
The book is well presented. The illustrations are clear. It is easy to read and always interesting.
---Current Engineering Practice and for the third edition...
The present edition of this book is the result of the 30-year career of the author as student, researcher, and teacher, in the field....highly recommended as a course for the students in biomaterials engineering, and as additional reading material for chemists and materials scientists.
---Iasi Polytechnic Magazine, 2000
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Description
The second edition of this text and reference contains: a chapter on the design and selection of biomaterials for specific applications; new data on drug release as an example of leaching, as well as the effects of surface treatment of biomaterials and surface succession of serum proteins; additional details on mechanical degradation of composite materials, and the mechanisms and kinetics of absorbable materials; recent information on the complement system and relative contributions of chemical, mechanical and electrical factors to local host response; current legal and regulatory developments, such as the Safe Medical Device Act (1990); a new section on mechanisms of metal management in vivo and on chromium metabolism; and chapters on properties of widely-used biomaterials, and on recognizing clinical symptoms referable to biomaterials.