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Nanomedicine, Volume I: Basic Capabilities Hardcover – October 15, 1999

by Robert A. Freitas (Author)

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Nanosensors and nanorobots are not science fiction but part of nanomedicine, the newest direction in medicine. After touring medical history and defining molecular nanotechnology as the atomic-level control of molecular structures to create precisely targeted medical procedures, Freitas (Institute for Molecular Manufacturing, Palo Alto, CA) details such topics as molecular transport and device applications but leaves ethical debates to others. Appends data on nanodevice design, and human blood and cell types; and a 36-page glossary. Part of a three-volume work, due to be available online. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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"Nanomedicine" is an endlessly impressive and uniquely important book, a gift from the future to us living in the present. -- Greg Fahy, PhD, Life Extension Magazine, October, 2000

All...topics..developed in considerable detail..a thorough and fascinating exploration of a field that could bring enormous benefits. -- Robotica (2000) Vol. 18, pp 687-689, Cambridge Univ Press

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Hardcover: 509 pages
Publisher: Landes Bioscience; 1st edition (October 15, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 157059645X
ISBN-13: 978-1570596452
Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 1.5 x 11 inches
Shipping Weight: 3.8 pounds
Average Customer Review: 11 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,960,667 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #235 in Books > Science & Math > Physics > Nanostructures
- #269 in Books > Science & Math > Technology > Nanotechnology
- #570 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Bioengineering > Biomedical Engineering

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Quite a multi-disciplinary treatise

June 9, 2003

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The author seems to cover molecular biology, physics, and engineering with equally impressive expertise. Prior to purchasing this book I thought "How can someone write so much on a field that arguably does not yet exist?" I was surprised at just how much thought has gone into the many facets of nanotechnology and nanomedicine -- regardless of the fact that we do not yet have the ability to implement most of the technology being discussed.
The title is perhaps a bit misleading. I would say this book is just as good a primer on nanotech in general as it is on nanomedicine. Many engineering issues are discussed, including power requirements, communication, heat dissipation, and mechanical strength. And, while many ideas are presented in a biological context (for instance, fluid drag is discussed in the context of navigating the blood stream), the information has applicability to nearly any type of nano-engineering.
The information presented is EXTENSIVELY referenced, and by skipping over the mathematical formulas, should be easily understood by someone with a basic background in biology and/or physics/engineering. I highly recommend this book.
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Predicting the future by making it happen

April 13, 2004

Format: Paperback

I'm a research engineer with a major U.S. corporation, and I think that Nanomedicine is an awesome book - Freitas obviously did a huge amount of work in writing this book. It isn't light reading - you need a college-level scientific education to really understand it, but even those without a technical background will appreciate the solid foundation that this provides for the tremendous advances that advanced nanotechnology will make possible. At any rate, if you want to understand the coming nanotechnology revolution in medicine, you must read this book.
I was very surprised by two recent reviewers who gave this excellent book an unfavorable rating. They obviously grossly misunderstood this book, apparently confining their long-term view of nanotechnology's contribution to 21st century medicine to the self-assembly of cleverly functionalized nanoparticles, such as the dendrimers being developed at UofM. Such nanoparticles will undoubtedly be very useful over the next few years, but for those of us who plan to predict to future by making it happen, we welcome Freitas' intricately detailed book. This book (and the series) is a vitally necessary foundation for ongoing research into active nanoscale devices that will incorporate nanoscale sensors, molecule-by-molecule reagent separations, molecular electronics, etc. One critic's comment about the left-handed DNA image on the cover reveals that this "reviewer" has not even opened the book. Freitas' use of the "wrong" DNA image was as purposeful as the humans pictured with seven fingers on the spine. He laments at the "left handed DNA" website ([...]) that "apparently these artistic subtleties have been lost on some readers."

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Ferdinando Scala

Basic capabilities, a very good start and a hope for tomorrow

May 11, 2006

Format: Paperback

Nanotechnology is one of the most rapidly evolving fields in science, after a long period of gestation from 1950s on.

The applications of nanotech to medicine promise to be astonishing: better and longer lives, organ replacement without any immunogenicity, cancer defeating; and even a new type of human being, built up by biological and non-biological parts, in what is called singularity.

The field is so complex and has so many and widespread implications that, in the very latest period, a number of publication at different levels of depth is appearing.

This one is the first of an ambitious project dedicated to nanomedical applications. The volume is preceded by a skyhigh introduction, in which the possibilities of nanomedicine are depicted, and a sort of working plan traced.

What follows is an overwhelmingly quantity of data, which can be only appreciated and understood by readers with a deep background in sciences (MSc or PhD levels), owed to the great emphasis on chemistry, physics and physical chemistry.

The start is good and I sincerely hope that next volumes are at the same level.

For specialists only.

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