Cybernetic Medicine

Norbert Weiner defined and christened the domain of Cybernetics as "the science of control and communication in machines and in living beings." This book, a monograph in a series entitled American Lectures in Living Chemistry, is an excellent illustration of scientific problems in "control and communication." One problem of the text is its language. The book is written in English and no mention is made of a translator, although Dr. Masturzo is located in Naples, Italy, where he is "President of International Society of Cybernetic Medicine." If this book was translated from another language, the translator should be acknowledged so that other authors can know who he is and shun him in the future. If Dr. Masturzo's native tongue is not English, and he wrote this all himself, he should be congratulated for his acquired skill, commended for his courageous efforts, and urged to do his future writing in his native language, aided by a good translator. A sample sentence (copied verbatim from page 84) should illustrate this point: At present, Huant51 maintains that by increasing informational and statistical sources, it is possible to overcome the difficulties of "particular references," this is also worth for therapeutical evaluation.