Scientific MOOCs follower. Author of Airpocalypse, a techno-medical thriller (Out Summer 2017)


Welcome to the digital era of biology (and to this modest blog I started in early 2005).

To cure many diseases, like cancer or cystic fibrosis, we will need to target genes (mutations, for ex.), not organs! I am convinced that the future of replacement medicine (organ transplant) is genomics (the science of the human genome). In 10 years we will be replacing (modifying) genes; not organs!


Anticipating the $100 genome era and the P4™ medicine revolution. P4 Medicine (Predictive, Personalized, Preventive, & Participatory): Catalyzing a Revolution from Reactive to Proactive Medicine.


I am an early adopter of scientific MOOCs. I've earned myself four MIT digital diplomas: 7.00x, 7.28x1, 7.28.x2 and 7QBWx. Instructor of 7.00x: Eric Lander PhD.

Upcoming books: Airpocalypse, a medical thriller (action taking place in Beijing) 2017; Jesus CRISPR Superstar, a sci-fi -- French title: La Passion du CRISPR (2018).

I love Genomics. Would you rather donate your data, or... your vital organs? Imagine all the people sharing their data...

Audio files on this blog are Windows files ; if you have a Mac, you might want to use VLC (http://www.videolan.org) to read them.

Concernant les fichiers son ou audio (audio files) sur ce blog : ce sont des fichiers Windows ; pour les lire sur Mac, il faut les ouvrir avec VLC (http://www.videolan.org).


Japan: Brain Dead Person From the Viewpoint of Life Studies

Brain Dead Person from the Viewpoint of Life Studies (1989)
By Masahiro Morioka, International Network for Life Studies

The classic book that introduced "human relationship oriented analysis" instead of "brain-centered analysis," and fundamentally changed Japanese bioethics. Stimulating discussion especially to an English audience


ABOUT THIS BOOK / TABLE OF CONTENTS: click here

What Kind of Place is an Intensive Care Unit?
In this Chapter 2 of "Brain Dead Person", Masahiro Morioka introduced the idea of "care of the sphere" that surrounds a brain dead person in an intensive care unit.

==> Read Chapter 2 of "Brain Dead Person"

My Death and the Death of Others: Chapter 5 of "Brain Dead Person"
"My death," "death of a person familiar to me," and "death of a person unfamiliar to me," the importance of our shared life history and memories of a brain dead person.

==> Read Chapter 5 of "Brain Dead Person"

Efficiency and Irreplaceability: Chapter 7 of "Brain Dead Person"
The importance of "nursing care" in the ethics of brain death and organ transplants, and the possibility of alternative methods of dealing with matters of life and death.

==> Read Chapter 7 of "Brain Dead Person"

"I have often considered the following question: isn’t it possible to see science from the point of view of someone directly involved? When we look at medicine from the standpoint of an onlooker, we find medical efficiency. However when we look at medicine from the standpoint of someone directly involved, we find irreplaceability of life.

Science from the position of an onlooker has matured independently in spite of many problems. But science from the position of someone directly involved has not even taken shape yet. This new kind of science is to be found where ethical problems of medicine are being formed, like none other than those discussed throughout this book. Science from the position from an onlooker was formed in modern Europe, with astronomy at its heart; staring up at (looking on) the distant stars in the night sky from the earth. Modern medicine is medicine that has adopted this into its essence. Science from the position of those directly involved will probably be formed with modern medicine at its heart, after many people have been forced to become directly involved through matters of life and death. It will become science that constantly focuses on irreplaceability from the standpoint of someone directly involved. I think this idea will, in places of medical treatment, slowly germinate between people who perform nursing care of 'irreplaceable' life."

Source:
International Network for Life Studies

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