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Medicine is a branch of biology. Medical doctors seek to prolong the material processes of life and so the lives of their patients and ultimately themselves. This prolongation is first and foremost the healing of damage to these processes. Medical research has made consider strides in healing damage to the material processes of life resulting from injury and from disease. It has, however, made precious little progress in healing damage to the material processes that were not built to last. The replacement of old and failing part with young and little worn parts is medicines' new frontier. But [[transplantation]] | Medicine is a branch of biology. Medical doctors seek to prolong the material processes of life and so the lives of their patients and ultimately themselves. This prolongation is first and foremost the healing of damage to these processes. Medical research has made consider strides in healing damage to the material processes of life resulting from injury and from disease. It has, however, made precious little progress in healing damage to the material processes that were not built to last. The replacement of old and failing part with young and little worn parts is medicines' new frontier. But [[transplantation]] is not medicine's final frontier. Why replace the parts that are old and failing with part that are destined to age and fail? Why trust in material processes that were not built to last when there are material processes that could be built to last? [[Bio-engineering]] is the promise of [[immortality]]. | ||
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Revision as of 01:47, 27 December 2010
Medicine is a branch of biology. Medical doctors seek to prolong the material processes of life and so the lives of their patients and ultimately themselves. This prolongation is first and foremost the healing of damage to these processes. Medical research has made consider strides in healing damage to the material processes of life resulting from injury and from disease. It has, however, made precious little progress in healing damage to the material processes that were not built to last. The replacement of old and failing part with young and little worn parts is medicines' new frontier. But transplantation is not medicine's final frontier. Why replace the parts that are old and failing with part that are destined to age and fail? Why trust in material processes that were not built to last when there are material processes that could be built to last? Bio-engineering is the promise of immortality.
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