Biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering

by Larry Hench, Julian Jones

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 185573737X

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Book Description

This textbook and collection of illustrated CD lectures summarizes how maintaining quality of life in an aging population is being achieved by the development of specialty biomaterials, devices, artificial organs, and in vitro growth of human cells as tissue engineered constructs.

Following an introduction to living and man-made materials, the book discusses clinical applications of biomaterials and devices, summarizes the bioengineering principles and materials used in artificial organs, and presents the concepts and applications of tissue engineering. It concludes with the complex socio-economic factors involved in technology-based healthcare. Each chapter is supplemented with illustrated PowerPoint lectures and study questions on a CD.

Book Reviews

"…provides an overview of multi-disciplinary nature and importance of biomedical materials, artificial organs and tissue engineering." - International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

"The book provides an overview, which is easily understandable to the reader. It succeeds in educating the reader about biomaterials, tissue engineering and artificial organs." - Carbohydrate Polymers

About the Author

Larry L. Hench is Professor of Ceramic Materials at Imperial College London and Co-Director of the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Centre, both in the UK.

Julian R. Jones is a Royal Academy of Engineering/EPRSC Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London, UK. In 2004 he was awarded the Silver Medal for outstanding achievement by a young researcher in materials science by the UK Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Customer Reviews

If you want to know about biomaterials, artificial organs and tissue engineering, then this is the book for you. One is always hopeful that a new book will shed some new light in this area, but this was the best book I've ever read. On this subject.

It's not really aimed at the casual reader though, as a certain amount of prior knowledge is assumed.

In my opinion the co-authors, Hench and Jones, complement each other in their writing style. This is definitely a promising first book for Jones, and I look forward to reading more from him as his writing style develops further.

If this is a subject that interests you then you should definitely save up, or sell your house, or a kidney, and buy this book.