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Activity
Hear from our panel of experts. While
listening to these presentations or reading
the written transcripts, consider the following
questions:
- How do you feel about replacing body parts
with artificial organs?
- Should these new devices be made available
to everyone, regardless of insurance or
ability to pay?
- Is the cost of developing these new devices
worth the expense?
- Do you think artificial organs will change
the ways we think about life and death?
- How might these new technologies reshape
our lives and social interactions?
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Lemelson
Center historian Maggie Dennis discusses
the current state of heart disease
in the United States.
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and Read Transcript
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Medical historian Shelley McKellar
from the University of Western Ontario
describes the history of efforts
to invent devices to assist and replace
the diseased heart.
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and Read Transcript |
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Dr. Robert
Kung, Senior Vice President and Chief
Scientific Officer at AbioMed Inc.,
shares his story about the origins
and development of the AbioCor Total
Artificial Heart.
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and Read Transcript |
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John
Fielder, bioethicist and Professor
of Philosophy at Villanova University,
explains some of the social, economic,
and ethical implications of these
new technologies.
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and Read Transcript |
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