Anticipation and Medicine : Springer : 9783319451404 : 3319451405 : 02 Nov 2016 : In this book, practicing physicians and experts in anticipation present arguments for a new understanding of medicine. Their contributions make it clear that medicine is the decisive test for anticipation. The reader is presented with a provocative hypothesis: If medicine will align itself with the anticipatory condition of life, it can prompt the most important revolution in our time. To this end, all stakeholders?medical practitioners, patients, scientists, and technology developers?will have to engage in the conversation. The book makes the case for the transition from expensive, and only marginally effective, reactive treatment through ?spare parts? (joint replacements, organ transplants) and reliance on pharmaceuticals (antibiotics, opiates) to anticipation-informed healthcare. Readers will understand why the current premise of treating various behavioral conditions (attention deficit disorder, hype