Ijedimma Okafor / Ijedinma Okafor
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
This book offers a critical and comprehensive guide to the most significant transformation in modern healthcare: the seamless and often startling fusion of digital technology with human well-being. It moves far beyond a simple celebration of innovative gadgets to provide a clear-eyed map of a complex new landscape. The narrative charts the revolutionary journey from the now-commonplace world of consumer wearables devices that empower individuals with unprecedented, real-time data about their own bodies to the deeply sensitive and groundbreaking frontier of maternal, fetal, and reproductive care. Here, technology acts as a digital guardian, monitoring and intervening in the earliest, most vulnerable stages of human life.The book meticulously examines the powerful new paradigm of medicine centered on the four Ps: prediction, prevention, personalization, and precision. It explains how artificial intelligence analyzes vast datasets to identify health risks long before symptoms appear and how continuous monitoring shifts care from reactive treatment to proactive preservation. However, this exploration is balanced with a sober and urgent analysis of the profound ethical, social, and practical dilemmas this revolution creates. The text confronts critical questions of data privacy, algorithmic bias, the potential for over diagnosis, and the grave risk of creating dangerous new divides in access between the privileged and the underserved.Written for professionals, policymakers, patients, and curious minds alike, this work does not offer easy answers but instead provides the essential context and critical framework needed to understand not just what technology can do, but what it should do. It is a compelling call to ensure that this unprecedented technological revolution ultimately serves the cause of universal human dignity, equitable access, and compassionate care, reminding us that the future of health is far too important to be left to machines alone.
