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Modern science and medicine has brought galore gains to mankind. An general man and woman may suppose to live longer than it was ever possible. In our country itself, the life expectancy is well over sixty years, which is much higher than people in less produced areas.

Smallpox is non-existent according to the World Health Organization. This contrasts sharply with the circumstance just regarding forty years ago when smallpox was a deadly killer of hundreds and thousands of persons each year.

Other impairment of normal physiological functions like tuberculosis, polio, leprosy and other once dreaded diseases are for the most part curable now. Medical care has bettered by leaps and bounds. Many potent new drugs have been devised to combat the some impairment of normal physiological functions that man is suffer from. Even some cancers are curable now.

There are a good deal of sicknesses that are still very hard to treat, but at least there are more choices available to the sufferers. Heart and other organ transplants are commonplace nowadays. So the chances of surviving a impairment of normal physiological function have increased. Except for AIDS, cancer and plain old age, men and women are much better off than their ancestors in terms of medical treatment.

However that is only one side of the story. In prolonging the lives of men and women, there are galore unexpected difficulties surface.

With the reduction of the overall death rate, the population of the world will rise quickly. This will create troubles in supplying adequate housing and feed for the speedily ageing population. The demands on the Earth will increase numerous folds. Our resources will be diminished and the future generation will be hard-pressed to cope with the galloping world population.

People will live longer. They require more of everything. Can society cope? I am not saying we will have to merely let the aged and sick die so that we will have sufficient resources for the healthy. There are a lot of moral and ethical considerations in this sort of thing. Even now any individual who even condone euthanasia or mercy-killing will in all likelihood find a horde of moralists breathing down his neck.

So it comes down to this. Modern science and medicine has enabled more men and women to live longer. This has the effect of increasing the world population and particularly the number of nonproductive older members of the humane race. The apparent gains that we have also fetch along their not wanted problems. Modern science and medicine has brought enormous good for mankind. It has brought or is bringing a lot of hurt too. Which is more, good or harm? There is genuinely no clear answer now. Perhaps the future will disclose it.

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This book illuminates how Berkner became a model that formulated the scientist/advisor/policymaker that helped build post-war America. It does so by providing a elaborated account of the personal and professional beliefs of one of the most influential figures in the American scientific community; a figure that helped define the political and social climates that existed in the United States for the duration of the Cold War.

Review”Carefully written and exhaustively researched, Needell’s fine study adds a new dimension to our understanding of the relations amidst science, policy, and the state. Highly recommended.–R.E. Bilstein, emeritus, University of Houston.”

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