Ebook: The Cure in the Code: How 20th Century Law is Undermining 21st Century Medicine

Table of Contents; Wetware; PART ONE: COMING APART; 1. The Triumph -- and Limits -- of Socialized Medicine; 2. Sniffers; 3. Intelligent Design; 4. Coming Apart; 5. Reassembling the Pieces: Part 1; PART TWO: SCIENTIFIC MEDICINE; 6. The Social Contract; 7. A Virus Like Us; 8. Drug Science from the Bottom Up; 9. The Fading Myth of the FDA's ""Gold Standard""; 10. Adaptive Trials; 11. Reassembling the PIeces: Part 2; PART THREE: THE FALLING COST OF HEALTH CARE; 12. Anthraxing Wall Street; 13. Dollar Doctor Science; 14. The Rising Cost of Helpless Care; 15. The Falling Cost of Health Care.;Medicine has become a true information industry, with drug designers able to read every molecular letter of life's code? DNA? and create miracle drugs to control it. Our understanding of DNA has advanced to the point that we can now build a medical system tailored to individuals. But these advances in science will not automatically translate to better patient care, argues Manhattan Institute senior fellow Peter Huber. Now that medicine takes place on the molecular level, massive public health initiatives designed to attack infectious diseases are no longer necessary, and government int.