| The Internet for Radiologists Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Caramella, Davide (Editor), Pavone, Paolo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3540631518 ISBN-13: 9783540631514 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback Published: November 1998 Annotation: This book provides guidelines for the radiologist on how to connect to a network, as well as how to search for pertinent medical information. Also included are yellow pages for the Internet, and a list of radiologically-oriented sites. Additional information on how to create a server and how to use e-mail to exchange images is included. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Reference - Medical | Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine - Computers | Internet - General |
| Dewey: 004.678 |
| LCCN: 98041691 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 6.26" W x 9.29" (0.65 lbs) 195 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Davide Caramella . Steffen Achenbach The world around us is changing at an unparalleled pace. It is difficult to un- derstand and describe the meaning of this process as no other revolution has involved so many people in such a short time. In particular, the Internet is about to influence all aspects of our lives. In the late 1700s, the "industrial revolution" forced societies that pre- viously lived on agricultural production to rethink the way they worked. The rapid speed of change also involved non-technical fields: new cities flour- ished, political systems were changed, the importance of the family was chal- lenged, wars of a new size shook the world and even landscapes were altered. After centuries of relatively stable economical and sociological conditions, people had to adjust to a new world in no more than a few decades. The "information revolution" is not willing to give us as much time. This is demonstrated by the short history of the World Wide Web (WWW) which started in 1990 and is growing so quickly that the users can only be esti- mated approximately (the last estimate that could be found at http: // etrg. findsvp. com put the number of WWW users in excess of 50 Million in July 1997). Also in the field of radiology, a spectacular growth took place in the last few years: in a paper published in the American Journal of Roentgen- ology (AJR), K. W. |