This book is a guide to understanding and
navigating the ethical issues associated with current and
emerging technologies. It provides background, scientific
facts, analysis, examples, and tools that allow one to sort
through the dilemmas and make reasoned decisions about them.
The assessment of the risks and benefits of new technologies
is not only the responsibility of scientists and engineers
but of government and the public as well. The answers to questions,
such as who owns DNA and to what extent should modifications
to DNA be allowed, will profoundly affect our lives and the
lives of future generations.
The book addresses such major technological innovations as:
• the genetic modification of organisms
• the cloning of human beings
• stem cell research
• space exploration
• alternative forms of energy
• synthetic biology
• enhancement of human physical and behavioral attributes
Ethics of Emerging Technologies also includes a review
of the rules of ethical conduct in human and animal experimentation,
scientific research, and the responsible conduct of those
involved in business enterprises involving these technologies.
The intent is to provide a guide for individual researchers,
discussion groups, seminars, for formal courses in ethics,
or for anyone wanting to know more about the dilemmas posed
by new technologies.
This critique of the VA’s Department
of Medicine and Surgery primariiy focuses on the psychiatric
care and management of veterans, and segues into an underappreciated
and underexpressed linkage to the dilemma of “universal
health care.” Health care in the USA now finds itself
where psychiatry historically has been from its inception;
namely, paradigmatically all over the place. Technology, increased
scientific knowledge and capitalism amongst other things has
transformed modern medicine, probably irretrievably, into
a consumer product item; no more no less.
This brings obvious yet major problems to
those who feel passionately that health benefits are an iinalienable
right to all members of an advanced civilization. But what
benefits? Interestingly enough, this politically charged idea
has found near full form in the US in a somewhat arcane sub-set
of our society, the Veterans Administration. This huge social
experiment extending backwards for well over a half century
now begs to be framed, placed in better context and researched
to see what parts of this experiment in socialized medicine
are worth keeping, what parts should be viewed as exorbitant,
suspect or moreover transformed and even dismantled.
Dr. Esquibel’s searching “novella”
is a must read to all those who would genuinely like to see
society more effectively ponder the wildly fluctuating supercharged
dilemma that is health care, psychiatry underscored. Insightful
and at times provocative– for more information visit
www.tickettonowhere.com.
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A CJ Floyd Mystery
By Robert Greer, DDS |
In RESURRECTING LANGSTON BLUE,
national bestselling author Robert Greer teams crusty but
lovable CJ Floyd with two popular characters from his previous
novel HEAT SHOCK, Flora Jean Benson, a former Marine intelligence
sergeant and CJ’s new partner, and Amerasian ER doc,
Carmen Nguyen.
Newly motivated by a family confession
that her missing father, Langston Blue, may still be alive,
Carmen enlists the help of CJ and Flora Jean in launching
a search. Blue fought in an elite unit in Vietnam and mysteriously
disappeared during a top secret mission. Carmen’s case
seems an especially good fit for CJ, who realizes after a
string of recent violent jobs that he needs to make some career
changes if he ever wants to create a life with his loyal,
longtime girlfriend, Mavis.
Carmen’s personal journey takes
a dangerous turn, though, when they uncover a dark secret
about a terrifying, clandestine raid during the war that involved
illegal U.S. paramilitary operations and the "elimination"
of Amerasian war babies. In the process of resurrecting and
reconstructing Langston Blue’s past, Carmen, CJ and
Flora Jean find themselves facing their most life-threatening
case ever as they follow a deadly trail made of double deals,
blueprints for genetic cleansing, political corruption, and
power grabs that lead all the way to the halls of the United
States Senate. RESURRECTING LANGSTON
BLUE is a suspenseful, breathtaking tale of political intrigue—and
Robert Greer at his finest.
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by Ernest H. Rosenbaum (MD ’56), FACP and
Isadora Rosenbaum, MA |
Through
more than 50 chapters, cancer care specialists Ernest and
Isadora Rosenbaum - along with nearly 80 other medical experts
- answer questions concerning a cancer patient's physical,
psychological, and spiritual needs. The goal of this book
is to provide tools and comfort for anyone fighting cancer
or helping a family member or friend who is.
The wide range of covered topics includes:
• Understanding cancer and its treatments
• Chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant side effects
• Stress and cancer
• The will to live
• Cancer and spirituality
• Sexuality
• Nutritional considerations
• Rehabilitation and fitness
With this book, the Rosenbaums hope to help cancer patients
and those who care for them make informed decisions, face
the disease with renewed courage, and care for both their
well-being and their bodies.
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by R. Reed Johnson (MD ’45) |
This novel is a tale of the adventures of
three pairs of brothers and how their lives entwine, even
though each pair lives in a different century -- the seventeenth,
eighteenth and nineteenth -- and each is from a different
territory or province of the western United States –
namely Texas, Colorado and the Spanish Province of New Mexico.
The thread of gold that binds these six lives together is
their search for a fabulous bonanza hidden in the rugged Lost
Creek Canyon in the Tarryall Mountains of Colorado. Their
experiences are set within historical events that the brothers
encounter – each in their own time and place. Historical
elements of the story touch on Don Juan Bautista de Anza's
campaign against the Comanches in the late 1700s, Ute Indian
customs, the Colorado Volunteers in the Civil War and The
Battle of Glorietta Pass, prospecting in the Colorado gold
fields during the late 1800s, and scenes of Littleton, Colorado
in the early 1930s.
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by Robert L. Weiner (MD ’52)
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En route to the invasion of Japan, Dr. Weiner
was spared when atom bombs ended WWII. After completing his
MD degree, he became an eye surgeon. With his wife Deborah
he lives in Greenwood Village, Colorado. His first novel,
DRIVEN, is a compelling tale of the cost and sacrifice of
unrelenting ambition. The novel begins in August 1945 when
the main characters, Jack Vanborn and Hugh Stanfield, have
a date for a bloodbath: the invasion of Japan. Their reservation
is cancelled by the atomic bombs that end WWII. Back in the
U.S. VanBorn, becomes a real estate developer. Stanfield attends
medical school and becomes an eye surgeon. They are reunited
during a ski holiday in snowbound Aspen, Colorado, when VanBorn’s
daughter sustains a fearful eye injury. In this dramatic setting
Stanfield performs a corneal transplant. VanBorn’s gratitude
knows no bounds. He builds a surgical operating microscope
for Stanfield, who utilizes it on his way to national renown.
