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Forever young nanotechnology and medicine
Title
Forever young [electronic resource (video)] : nanotechnology and medicine / Fred Friendly Seminars (Firm)
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2008], c2008.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (58 min.) : sd., col., digital file. + instructional materials (online)
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Dec. 18, 2008.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Title from distributor's description.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
With nano-enabled drugs that destroy diseased cells and enable tissue repair, doctors may one day extend life expectancy far beyond our current capabilities - at least in countries wealthy enough to afford the technology. But the medicine that so radically redefines our standards of health and mortality will also profoundly challenge our social support systems and cultural values. In this Fred Friendly Seminar, moderator and Peabody award-winning journalist John Hockenberry leads a panel of experts through provocative scenarios that shed light on the issue. What kinds of cures and therapies will nanomedicine make possible? Should access to them be universal, even if they are prohibitively expensive? Does everyone have a right to live forever? Or does immortality present a danger, ironically, to human survival? Seminar panelists include Dr. Michael Goldblatt, President and CEO of Functional Genetics, Inc.; Dr. Michael L. Roukes, Professor of Physics, Nanoscience Institute at CalTech; Dr. James R. Baker, Jr., Director of the Michigan Nanotechnology Institute for Medicine and Biological Sciences; and Dr. Rosalyn Berne, Associate Professor of Technology, Culture, and Communication at the University of Virginia.
Variant and related titles
Nanotechnology and medicine
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Fred Friendly Seminars (Firm), 2008
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Nanotechnology: The Power of Small-A Fred Friendly Seminar
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
12 & up.
Contents
Introduction: Nanotechnology the Power of Small (1:13)
Introduction to Nanotechnology in Medicine (2:12)
Discussion of Nanotechnology in Medicine (2:04)
Digital Doctor (2:43)
Pros and Cons of Digital Doctor (2:49)
Debating the Digital Doctor (2:42)
Key Features of Nanomedicine (2:24)
Treating Biology and Psychology (2:56)
Digital Doctor: Tool, Not Solution (2:52)
Danger Zone in Nanomedicine (1:59)
Enhancement Versus Monitoring (1:39)
Applications for Implanted Electrodes (1:45)
Nanotechnology and Mood Disorders (2:17)
Implications of Mood Altering Implants (3:48)
Pathological Reasons for Depression (1:04)
The Illusion of a Solution (1:18)
Extended Life Span (3:04)
How to Double Life Span (2:51)
Magnifying Disparity on Life Expectancy (1:57)
Life Enhancing Technology (1:18)
Embracing the Inevitable in Nanotechnology (2:11)
Infrastructure of Society (1:58)
External Versus Internal Forces (2:06)
Conclusion: Nanotechnology the Power of Small (2:13)
Videorecording number
39762s Infobase
39764 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Fred Friendly Seminars (Firm)
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