Medicine Meets Virtual Reality: Envisioning Healing - Interactive Technology and the Patient-practitioner Dialogue - Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Marc Notes: Based on a conference.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Publisher Marketing: This text provides an innovative international forum for the researchers, developers and practitioners who are actively expanding the role of electronic technologies in healthcare. Leading-edge developments and state-of-the-art clinical expertise are brought together for the purpose of exploring ways to improve medical care; mental health implications of new electronic technologies are also discussed. A special focus is placed on virtual reality as a means of bringing patient and practitioner closer together in the pursuit of healing. Review Citations:

Scitech Book News 12/01/2001 pg. 85 (EAN 9781586030148, Hardcover)