History of Science 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Da Vinci Surgical System, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, Autonomous Robot
11 Oct 2018
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May 24th, 2018- pharmaceuticals: medical magic (part 1) Overview: technological problems (from last week, the hospital as a (cid:862)machine(cid:863, what is a drug, early discoveries, plants, metals and minerals, house md. Technological problems: problematic examples: the boy in the bubble, david vetter, the boy was born with a genetic mutation affecting his immune system (scid), and he could not be exposed to germs or he would die. Doctors had told the parents they could use a marrow transplant from his sister, but not she was not a match. The boy was allowed to grow to become a teenager living in a hermetically sealed bubble. However, he died during surgery at age 12: the doctors assumed that the boy would be in the bible for only 4-6 weeks after getting the bone marrow transplant. However, the boy remained in the bubble, being psychologically harmed for.
