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An essay on the mill of refinement, can we take off?
Most of the improvements would be beneficial for a society desperate for cures or treatments that benefit the population identified as sick or disabled. " Some few of these improvements are developed for particular populations 'healthy', who have specialized requirements, such as soldiers in combat. Although improvements are intended ostensibly limited consumption, the trend is that its use will increase dramatically after its introduction, and soon goes beyond the population that justified in the first instance, their development.
When this happens, there are consequences that actually exist that the company had not fully anticipated. For example, human growth hormone, genetically engineered, won approval from the FDA in 1985 to address the "dwarf"-a condition characterized by abnormally short stature often caused by a genetic mutation espontánea.57 Today , human growth hormone is prescribed (and the FDA approved) for healthy children whose parents are deemed to small. His children, say the experts, suffering from "idiopathic short stature", which means that no signs of disease are simply unacceptably short stature. Growth hormone are now more widely athletes seeking a refinement of their performance. Growth hormone is promoted strongly arguing that it is fighting properties envejecimiento.58 "Treatment" is not cheap, growth hormone can cost $ 20 000 per year and is prescribed often for four or five years. 59 It is estimated that the global market will reach U.S. $ 2 billion anuales.60
is problematic expand the use of growth hormone among healthy populations. Says Dr. Michael FreeMarker in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, "The term 'idiopathic short stature" with the implication of disease [but] the main problem of short stature is the susceptibility to discrimination. But discrimination is a "disease" of society, not the individual child. In theory, social intolerance must be addressed through the enactment and entry into effect of anti-discrimination laws, through re-educate the public and by consulting with the family, not by medication of the child ".61 FreeMarker
goes further and shows that the introduction of improvements may alter the social perception of what is abnormal and / or acceptable. And he says: "In the absence of disease, there is no reason to define a treatment threshold. For example, how to justify the treatment of a child whose growth horizon is of 1.60 meters, and not that of another child whose maximum height of 1.61? The most serious is that the use of GH [growth hormone] in very short children can create an endless cycle of new setbacks, the increases in the high end of very short stature children involve the reclassification of many children previously normal (low stature but high horizons that exceed these thresholds), which will be labeled as "idiopathic low." This may be a circumstance in which the treatment of a group of children create a state of "illness" in a group previously "healthy". " [Emphasis added.]
Unfortunately, growth hormone is not the only case in which technology performance improvements, when administered in the absence of disease, create a population "affected" was once considered healthy. Consider the following examples:
* Gene Therapy * Update height
memory * Improved visual cognitive Implant
* * Extension of the horizon of life * Insert gene happiness charm
* Training in partnership * Implant gene for the assessment of broccoli
* transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS its acronym in English): This is a procedure that stimulates areas of the brain from the outside, through the use of an electromagnetic field. The TMS can help reveal the roles of active parts (or off) of the brain, but is considered as a potential treatment for brain disorders, including Parkinson's disease or depression. Use magnetic fields to stimulate (or off) different parts of the brain has led investigators to discover that the "normal" people can dramatically increase your brain power 25. A recent study conducted by Professor Allan Snyder at the Centre for the Mind, a joint venture between the Australian National University and the University of Sydney showed that transcranial magnetic stimulation of left temporal lobe improve the ability of participants to guess the number elements that were shown on a computer screen. The ability subsided one hour after the estimulación.62
Is it much so that workers consume brain stimulation instead of coffee on their breaks? Is something considered brain stimulation needed to maintain a competitive edge in the job? How much brain expansion is enough? * Treatment of sleep deprivation: They are not intended to help those suffering from insomnia and other sleep disorders. In fact, they are designed to make it sustainable deprivation. The U.S. military at the forefront of research on sleep deprivation and already funded dozens of projects, including studies on the potential use of TMS to reduce the need for DARPA
dormir.63 [abbreviation in English of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency], the U.S. government agency dedicated to advanced research projects on defense, explains his particular interest to make possible sleep deprivation: The success of military operations "depends on the ability of the fighter to operate for long periods of time without adequate sleep" .64
Along with the TMS, is converted sleep deprivation in lifestyle for those seeking a competitive advantage and can afford treatment or medication? And the workers, such as bus drivers, will they be forced to undergo "therapy" of sleep deprivation in order to stay tuned for more hours? What are the social (and health) of an army of "undead" private company or a perennially sleep?
* Laser Eye Surgery: In some cases, it is now possible to restore the perfect 20-20 poor vision through corrective surgery. Millions of surgeries are performed every year (for 2005 were calculated as 1.6 million U.S. only) .65 And the number of surgeries is growing, and is expected to continue increasing. Since that most people do not feel that prescription glasses are an "upgrade" option, should we consider the potential social impacts of generalized perfect vision (or vision beyond perfect)?
The New York Times recently noted that in the past five years, the U.S. Naval Academy has provided corrective eye surgery, free of charge, to all midshipmen (the eye can benefit from it) .66 Less than 30 percent of the class of 2006 refused to undergo surgery (the number of denials is shrinking every year.) An unintended consequence is that referred to the Naval Academy could not meet its share of submarine officers in any of these five years.
Traditionally, submarines are the second most promising option for those items that do not have perfect vision. Aviation-first choice for naval officers, and requiring perfect vision, "is now the most viable option for most. As these and other improvements more extreme become popular among the general population, social turns what can we expect? How will we deal with these impacts had not anticipated?
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