Healthcare professionals distinguish between medicine, surgery, and diet and lifestyle guidelines. In other words, medicine aims to provide a quantity of life. Men and women would rather remain in good health as long as possible and compensate for the deficiencies that crop up to the best of their abilities. They are looking for quality of life. The result is a tension due to different objectives. This book hypothesizes that this tension is the cause of an industrialization of medicine or health, according to the point of view we choose. Offers the key to understanding how this new form of industry will spread to create real change in the field of patient care Explores ethical issues and analyzes the various technologies at work in this transformation Establishment of new institutions and new management methodss by the incursion of ICT in Medicine: digital identity, access to information or biopower.