Cybermedicine : how computing empowers doctors and patients for better care / Warner V. Slack ; with a foreword by Ralph Nader.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2001], ©2001.

xxii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Rev. and updated ed.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-240) and index.

Pt. 1. Cybermedicine and the patient -- Providing information to patients -- Patient-computer dialogue -- Cybermedicine as a patient's assistant -- Cybermedicine in psychology and psychiatry -- The patient on-line -- Pt. 2. Cybermedicine and the clinician -- Cybermedicine in the hospital -- Cybermedicine in the care of the patient -- How well does it work? -- The clinician on-line -- Confidentiality -- Pt. 3. Modern times -- Barriers to cybermedicine -- The importance of being ernst -- New horizons.