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Hacking the person
Lara Lewington (WH Allen: UK, now available US, 14 October)
Smart toilets tracking your gut health. Robotic pets that raise goodness. Mirror measuring your blood pressure. It is difficult to predict the future with any certainty, but, as a biomedical journalist, I am shocked to read a book that can change the health care technology.
on Human Hacking: How Technology can save your health, and your lifeLara Lewington is worth more than a decade of experience as a BBC technology reporter to hide an impressive editing of organs and genetic edits to treat some conditions. “Allow me to show you the way of a future where we hack to man,” he wrote to the introduction.
The following is a whistle-stop to progress to the hottest medical research improvements, lives by first-hand accounts with primary lewington cutting devices. He also met the characters and companies pioneering such innovations, helping to put a human face with the tools often dependent on artificial intelligence.
However, as a person who reads good health news every day, I found the start of the book more important. Covering devices who are weary that keeps things like you sleep, exercise and blood sugar levels, Lewington explained our bodies that seem bad for our bodies. I would like to be more detailed about how wearable can be integrated with the scope that is underneath health care systems.
Subsequent sections are more interesting, as it looks how changes are like 3D printing organs actually helping scientists develop new drugs. I also enjoyed a passage consisting of blood tests and AI models carrying out early detales and more personal cancer treatment. If you are not familiar with medicinal weight loss and anti-aging research, Lewington also gives a rundown involvement in both.
As a self-expressive “Tech Optimist”, Lewington presented a great view of the devices he experienced, often prevented successive consequences of any caveats.
While this enthusiasm can be refreshing for some, I see uncountable “Change of technologies” the more greater doubt.
The book ends by acknowledging that sharp technologies are always available to the rich. Lewington also emphasized the need for tools to be tested by a larger variety of people, including ethnic minority groups and women who are often motivated by medical research.
However, I want a larger discussion of how medical AI can evaluate non-uniform health and how we can avoid it, given how serious the technology features in the whole book. Research suggested that some broken heart-rate trackers can work bad for people with darker skin. It would be good to have such cases tied between promised outcomes, with expert opinion how we can know from them.
Overall, Hacking the person May a great choice for someone who is looking for a quick summary of the most ambitious ideas of medical change – but more critical analysis of which health care.
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