Medical Utopias
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Medical Utopias
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Author : Bert Gordijn
language : en
Publisher: Peeters Pub & Booksellers
Release Date : 2006
Medical Utopias written by Bert Gordijn and has been published by Peeters Pub & Booksellers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Medical categories.
The field of medicine is generally greeted with great enthusiasm. This can be witnessed in the immense support for medical progress, which is widely hoped to lead to a realization of idealized goals. Indeed, with the help of medicine the human body would be controllable and constructible, human nature perfectible. However, enthusiasm in favor of medical progress is first and foremost a sentiment and, like all sentiments, not necessarily a product of rational contemplation. People are capable of enthusing about the realization of utopian notions, such as life without disease or with the perfect body, without requiring any concrete arguments to back them up. Enthusiasm alone is not a guarantee of ethical desirability, however. Hence, this book takes a closer look at four research fields often referred to in medical utopian literature: 'tissue engineering', 'bioelectronics', 'germ line genome modification' and 'interventions in the biological aging process'. They serve as a basis for analyzing whether ethical arguments can be found to support the euphoric advocacy of the further development of these fields.
Life Without Disease
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Author : William B. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2022-08-19
Life Without Disease written by William B. Schwartz and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-19 with Medical categories.
The chaotic state of today's health care is the result of an explosion of effective medical technologies. Rising costs will continue to trouble U.S. health care in the coming decades, but new molecular strategies may eventually contain costs. As life expectancy is dramatically extended by molecular medicine, a growing population of the aged will bring new problems. In the next fifty years genetic intervention will shift the focus of medicine in the United States from repairing the ravages of disease to preventing the onset of disease. Understanding the role of genes in human health, says Dr. William B. Schwartz, is the driving force that will change the direction of medical care, and the age-old dream of life without disease may come close to realization by the middle of the next century. Medical care in 2050 will be vastly more effective, Schwartz maintains, and it may also be less expensive than the resource-intensive procedures such as coronary bypass surgery that medicine relies on today. Schwartz's alluring prospect of a medical utopia raises urgent questions, however. What are the scientific and public policy obstacles that must be overcome if such a goal is to become a reality? Restrictions on access imposed by managed care plans, the corporatization of charitable health care institutions, the increasing numbers of citizens without health insurance, the problems with malpractice insurance, and the threatened Medicare bankruptcy—all are the legacy of medicine's great progress in mastering the human body and society's inability to assimilate that mastery into existing economic, ethical, and legal structures. And if the average American life span is 130 years, a genuine possibility by 2050, what social and economic problems will result? Schwartz examines the forces that have brought us to the current health care state and shows how those same forces will exert themselves in the decades ahead. Focusing on the inextricable link between scientific progress and health policy, he encourages a careful examination of these two forces in order to determine the kind of medical utopia that awaits us. The decisions we make will affect not only our own care, but also the system of care we bequeath to our children. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1998.
Mirage Of Health
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Author : René Jules Dubos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09
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Mirage Of Health
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Author : René Dubos
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-12-02
Mirage Of Health written by René Dubos and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-02 with Health & Fitness categories.
Every man dreams of a utopia in which disease is conquered and the only thing left to die of is old age. In a study of the history and concepts of medicine, René Dubos, who is one of America’s most distinguished scientists, shows that such a utopia is neither possible nor desirable. Organized species such as ants have established a satisfactory equilibrium with their environment and suffer no great waves of disease or changes in their social structure. But man is essentially dynamic, his way of life constantly in flux from century to century. He experiments with synthetic products and changes his diet; he builds cities that breed rats and infection; he builds automobiles and factories which pollute the air; and he constructs radioactive bombs. As life becomes more comfortable and technology more complicated, new factors introduce new dangers; the ingredients for utopia are the agents of new disease. Dr. Dubois’ thesis may sound discouraging to a world looking for a cure-all in medical research, but actually it is affirmative—even hopeful. Once we accept the fact that “complete freedom from disease and from struggle is almost incompatible with the process of living,” we will know that our aspirations cannot be satisfied with health and the easy life. “The viewpoint expressed in Mirage of Health has now become a dominant one in our general culture and encompasses much of current concern with improving lifestyles related to health and promoting greater health consciousness among the public. In this sense, the discussion, although written twenty-five years ago, is perhaps more relevant today than it was then.”—DAVID MECHANIC, University Professor, René Dubos Professor of Behavioral Sciences, and Director of the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research, Rutgers University
Topias And Utopias In Health
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Author : Stanley R. Ingman
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2011-05-12
Topias And Utopias In Health written by Stanley R. Ingman and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-12 with Social Science categories.
Topias and Utopias in Health: Policy Studies.
Mirage Of Health
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Author : René Jules Dubos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1591
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Hygeia A City Of Health
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Author : Benjamin Ward Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-19
Hygeia A City Of Health written by Benjamin Ward Richardson and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-19 with Fiction categories.
"Hygeia, a City of Health" by Benjamin Ward Richardson Named after the Greek goddess of health, Hygeia is the story of a utopian city. Richardson comments on health and the state of the world through his ideas for this ideal one where health is promoted above all else. His words echo those of so many people who came before him, ideas that aimed to create healthy cities from the ground up.
Beyond Techno Utopia Critical Approaches To Digital Health Technologies
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Author : Deborah Lupton
language : en
Publisher: MDPI
Release Date : 2018-10-04
Beyond Techno Utopia Critical Approaches To Digital Health Technologies written by Deborah Lupton and has been published by MDPI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-04 with Medical care categories.
This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Beyond Techno-Utopia: Critical Approaches to Digital Health Technologies" that was published in Societies
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
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Sulphuric Utopias
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Author : Lukas Engelmann
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2020-03-31
Sulphuric Utopias written by Lukas Engelmann and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-31 with Science categories.
How early twentieth century fumigation technologies transformed maritime quarantine practices and inspired utopian visions of disease-free global trade. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, fumigation technologies transformed global practices of maritime quarantine through chemical and engineering innovation. One of these technologies, the widely used Clayton machine, blasted sulphuric acid gas through a docked ship in an effort to eliminate pathogens, insects, and rats while leaving the cargo and the structure of the vessel unharmed, shortening its time in quarantine and minimizing the risk of importing infectious diseases. In Sulphuric Utopias, Lukas Engelmann and Christos Lynteris examine this overlooked but historically crucial practice at the intersection of epidemiology, hygiene, applied chemistry, and engineering. They show how maritime fumigation inspired utopian visions of disease-free trade to improve global shipping and to encourage universally applicable standards of sanitation and hygiene. Engelmann and Lynteris chart the history of ideas about fumigation, disinfection, and quarantine, and chronicle the development of the Clayton machine in 1880s New Orleans. Built by the Louisiana Board of Health and adapted and patented by Thomas Clayton, the machine offered a barrier against bacteria and pests and enabled a highway to global trade. Engelmann and Lynteris chronicle the Clayton machine's success and examine its competitors, including carbon-based fumigation methods in Germany and the Ottoman Empire as well as the “Sulfurozador” in Argentina. They follow the international standardization of maritime fumigation and explore the Clayton machine's decline after World War I, when visions of “sulphuric utopia” were replaced by a pragmatic acknowledgment of epidemiological complexity.