Is anything acceptable like stem cell or organ donations. In history, blood letting was a common thing and so was measles. We don't have to worry about blood letting anymore and measles with common vacination will be a thing of the past as well. Now we have other things like cancer to thing about.
2006-11-10 02:25:00 · 5 answers · asked by imahlah 6 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
We have to be careful with every advance. It's those nasty unforseen consequences (or worse, those forseen and ingnored) you have to watch out for. Bloodletting is still practiced, but it's called therapeutic phlebotomy. This summer's measles outbreak seems to be under control now.
There are long term consequences to any therapy. Those who seek quick fixes are most likely to be burned -- case in point: prefrontal lobotomy.
I'm open minded, but I do not throw caution to the wind. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
--George Santayana
2006-11-10 02:37:34 · answer #1 · answered by novangelis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As technology advances and alternatives treatments are found, I'm sure future generations will look back on practices such as chemotherapy and mastectomies for cancer patients as extraordinarily barbaric... as much so as our leech-using counterparts of previous generations. But it's what they've got to work with for now, and you can't rush medical science. Not really, anyway.
In my opinion, receiving a donor organ is no worse than taking antibiotics for a mild illness... a hundred years ago, people died of colds and fevers all the time. Nowadays, it's a rarity.
Medical science isn't creating immortality, it's simply postponing the inevitable.
2006-11-10 11:05:25 · answer #2 · answered by xxandra 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very open minded about medicine in this country. For example my girlfriend was told a month ago that her cat was dying of cancer and it would be best to put it to sleep. We got some Zeolite and starting giving it to her and she's doing ok. It's a completely safe and non-toxic (it's been tested by the FDA). Of course the doctors told us that only chemo treatments could help but we couldn't afford them.
2006-11-10 13:43:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not very open. Because than you cross the line and get into challenging the natural evolution of things, and, that is dangerous ground. Sort of evil in my opinion. Sometimes man just needs to live and let live, that's where he gets into trouble. Too curious.
2006-11-10 10:34:03 · answer #4 · answered by cold runner 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I take it, by the first part of your expanded question, that you may be considering body donation after death to further research. If that's your desire and your doc hasn't said not to for some medical reason specifically related to you, I'd go for it.
2006-11-10 10:29:59 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋