Bio(r)Evolution?
On the Contemporary Military-Medical Complex
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interactive exploration and the deriva- images, schemes, www-sites, or net-
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„What you are looking at here is bits „While striving to practice the complete
and bytes. Zeros and ones. But it’s also discipline of surgery, he is aggressively
a living, breathing, caring human being. pursuing the leading edge of advanced
This may well be a way to introduce the technologies to formulate the architec-
future to you...“ ture for the next generation of Medicine
- Medicine: 2001.“
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