Anticipation and Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Nadin, Mihai (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Artificial intelligence.; Neural networks (Computer science).; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Mathematical Models of Cognitive Processes and Neural Networks.; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics).

In this book, practicing physicians and experts in anticipation present arguments for a new understanding of medicine. Their contributions make it clear that medicine is the decisive test for anticipation. The reader is presented with a provocative hypothesis: If medicine will align itself with the...

Table of Contents:

• Part I Anticipation and Medical Care
• Part II Evaluating the Risk Factors and Opportunities of New Medical Procedures
• Part III Examining the Brain
• Part IV Anticipation and Medical Data Processing
• Part V Anticipation and Psychological Aspects of Patient Treatments
• Part VI Anticipation and Ubiquitous Computing
• Part VII Anticipation and Alternative Medicine.