Discovering New Worlds in Medicine
Discovering New Worlds in Medicine

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Published: 1991

Total Pages: 812

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Discovering New Worlds in Medicine has been conceived under the auspices of the Christopher Columbus Committee for Medical Science, on the occasion of the Quincentennial of the discovery of America. The intent of this volume is twofold: first, to delineate an ideal itinerary of medical sciences from the time of Columbus to our own times, and from then, hopefully, to the new worlds of medical sciences in the not-too-distant future. Cancer, AIDS and many other unexplored or still dark continents of incurable diseases still await their Colombus. Second, to offer both to the public and to people engaged in health sciences a clear and up to date review of what is going on in the vastly diversified fields of medical sciences in a way promptly intelligible to the layman, but at the same time attractive and informative to specialists. To ahieve these objectives a task force of over 40 leading medical scientists of the United States of maerica and of Italy, including a Nobel Prize winner, has been assembled and all the Authors have responded with enthusiasm and without personnal profit. The pros and cons of every medical progress have been analyzed and ealuated, and the future teasks of medicine are squarely met and discussed. There will be great changes in the new world of tomorrow, including the unrelenting rise of the world's population, and the medical sciences are expected to meet also this challenge. The authors and the editors of this book are confident that the reponse will be affirmative.

The Next 500 Years
The Next 500 Years

Author: Christopher E. Mason

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2022-04-12

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0262543842

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An argument that we have a moral duty to explore other planets and solar systems--because human life on Earth has an expiration date. Inevitably, life on Earth will come to an end, whether by climate disaster, cataclysmic war, or the death of the sun in a few billion years. To avoid extinction, we will have to find a new home planet, perhaps even a new solar system, to inhabit. In this provocative and fascinating book, Christopher Mason argues that we have a moral duty to do just that. As the only species aware that life on Earth has an expiration date, we have a responsibility to act as the shepherd of life-forms--not only for our species but for all species on which we depend and for those still to come (by accidental or designed evolution). Mason argues that the same capacity for ingenuity that has enabled us to build rockets and land on other planets can be applied to redesigning biology so that we can sustainably inhabit those planets. And he lays out a 500-year plan for undertaking the massively ambitious project of reengineering human genetics for life on other worlds. As they are today, our frail human bodies could never survive travel to another habitable planet. Mason describes the toll that long-term space travel took on astronaut Scott Kelly, who returned from a year on the International Space Station with changes to his blood, bones, and genes. Mason proposes a ten-phase, 500-year program that would engineer the genome so that humans can tolerate the extreme environments of outer space--with the ultimate goal of achieving human settlement of new solar systems. He lays out a roadmap of which solar systems to visit first, and merges biotechnology, philosophy, and genetics to offer an unparalleled vision of the universe to come.

New Worlds, Ancient Texts
New Worlds, Ancient Texts

Author: Anthony Grafton

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1995-03-15

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0674254120

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Describing an era of exploration during the Renaissance that went far beyond geographic bounds, this book shows how the evidence of the New World shook the foundations of the old, upsetting the authority of the ancient texts that had guided Europeans so far afield. What Anthony Grafton recounts is a war of ideas fought by mariners, scientists, publishers, and rulers over a period of 150 years. In colorful vignettes, published debates, and copious illustrations, we see these men and their contemporaries trying to make sense of their discoveries as they sometimes confirm, sometimes contest, and finally displace traditional notions of the world beyond Europe.

New Worlds, New Horizons
New Worlds, New Horizons

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2016-11-24

Total Pages: 139

ISBN-13: 0309445108

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New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (NWNH), the report of the 2010 decadal survey of astronomy and astrophysics, put forward a vision for a decade of transformative exploration at the frontiers of astrophysics. This vision included mapping the first stars and galaxies as they emerge from the collapse of dark matter and cold clumps of hydrogen, finding new worlds in a startlingly diverse population of extrasolar planets, and exploiting the vastness and extreme conditions of the universe to reveal new information about the fundamental laws of nature. NWNH outlined a compelling program for understanding the cosmic order and for opening new fields of inquiry through the discovery areas of gravitational waves, time-domain astronomy, and habitable planets. Many of these discoveries are likely to be enabled by cyber-discovery and the power of mathematics, physics, and imagination. To help realize this vision, NWNH recommended a suite of innovative and powerful facilities, along with balanced, strong support for the scientific community engaged in theory, data analysis, technology development, and measurements with existing and new instrumentation. Already in the first half of the decade, scientists and teams of scientists working with these cutting-edge instruments and with new capabilities in data collection and analysis have made spectacular discoveries that advance the NWNH vision. New Worlds, New Horizons: A Midterm Assessment reviews the responses of NASA's Astrophysics program, NSF's Astronomy program, and DOE's Cosmic Frontiers program to NWNH. This report describes the most significant scientific discoveries, technical advances, and relevant programmatic changes in astronomy and astrophysics over the years since the publication of the decadal survey, and assesses how well the Agencies' programs address the strategies, goals, and priorities outlined in the 2010 decadal survey.

What Is Medicine?
What Is Medicine?

Author: Paul U. Unschuld

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-09-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 0520944704

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What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing is the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through present advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of traditional Chinese medicine. In his revolutionary interpretation of the basic forces that undergird shifts in medical theory, Paul U. Unschuld relates the history of medicine in both Europe and China to changes in politics, economics, and other contextual factors. Drawing on his own extended research of Chinese primary sources as well as his and others' scholarship in European medical history, Unschuld argues against any claims of "truth" in former and current, Eastern and Western models of physiology and pathology. What Is Medicine? makes an eloquent and timely contribution to discussions on health care policies while illuminating the nature of cognitive dynamics in medicine, and it stimulates fresh debate on the essence and interpretation of reality in medicine's attempts to manage the human organism.