Science behind Medicine has led to awareness and preventive education among the public. Certain procedures propagated through these awareness programs such as regular exercising and taking regular doses of insulin for diabetes patients help maintain the health of today's patients. Insulin can now be synthetically prepared in our laboratories using bacteria cultures. Antibiotics and other medicines sometimes help us fight life-threatening conditions. In short, the patients are often handed a second chance to live. We are no longer at the complete mercy of nature. The right to choose and to take control of one's life has been passed down to the individual. As pointed out by Willard Gaylin in his essay, Harvesting the Dead, the technology we have developed has essentially changed the definition of death. Now although a person could be declared dead, he could have willed his usefulness beyond his mortality. Medical Technology has reached a point where organs can be transplanted from one individual to another. Many see red in such an act as desecration of a human body. However, by donating his or her organs to give a new lease of life to someone else, the person found a meaning not only in his lifetime but also in his death. Medicine has often been cited as a means to over-population. Sure, it helps us live a little longer but it also provides us with birth control techniques such as contraceptives and sterility operations to help prevent it. Speaking along this line, instead of blaming Science and Medicine for our troubles, would it not be right to blame those who do not heed the advice provided by Science and makes use of the technology it has provided to curb over-population? Issues such as euthanasia and abortion have always been topics of debate in the field of Medicine. Even before the present day techniques were developed, people already had in place procedures that essentially had similar goals to what is now termed as euthanasia.
Initially, the insurance policies were made to help in emergency situations for people who had a broken a leg, or had to have major surgery and could not afford the price of high-technology treatment. ... I do admit that it should have been a benifit to Americans, but I have yet to see everyone benifit as innitialy planned....
Genetic Engineering: The Helping Hand in Society's Problems. As the years change in our society our technology grows with it . At one point we wered trying to see how we could put a man on the planet mars and now we are on the verge of seeing how we can keep an whole civilization out there.tech...
Like any new technology, people are at first afraid, but this is no excuse to abandon research that could one day save millions of people through cloned organs or give an alternative and safe means of reproduction to sterile couples. ... Cloning technology doesn't ultimately mean a need to create a human race in which everyone is the same. ... "Cloning technology can help "perfect" gene therapy, the actual correction or replacement of defective gene sequences. ...
I dawn from a small country called Bhutan and hail from a family having an ornamental past, fuelled with the ambition of achievers and leaders. With all my humility, I"m trying to carry on an illustrious tradition. Telecommunications has been the core of my undergraduate study and ongoing work portf...
