Biological Engineering:
•A former Major League Baseball player, Jose Conseco, estimated
that about 85% of major league players have used some type of
performance enhancing drug.
•Parents are intentionally training their children to be professional
and college athletes from a young age with the hopes that, in the
future, their “creation” will someday make millions of dollars and
accumulate world-wide fame–or at the very least earn a college
scholarship
•Leading scientists in the field of genetic manipulation predict that in
5 to 15 years, athletes may be using genetic engineering (gene
doping) to gain an edge on their opponents, and some contend that
it may be already occurring.
•Strength training is not a modern invention as it can be dated back
to ancient Egyptian and Greek civilizations
•Performance enhancing drugs date back to the late 19th century as
a Welsh cyclist died during a race due to taking a stimulant called
trimethyl in 1886
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The History of Medical Bioengineering Utopian Thinking:
Francis Bacon
•Novum Organum (1620): dominance of nature and its practical utilization for the salvation of
mankind
•New Atlantis (1627)
•Bacon describes an ideal future society which thrived on scientific research
•Considerable attention is paid to medical research.
•New technologies in the medical field significantly impact success of people.
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Rene Descartes
•The Trend of Food Improvement
•The process of incorporating biogenetics into the agricultural
world has gained speed in recent years
•The Mansanto Company
•They have been designing genetically altered foods that improve
availability as well as the product
•Have been heavily criticized for much of their work
•What’s next?
•At this rate, natural foods are in great danger
•Should genetically altered foods be banned by the government?
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•Discours, (1637), fifth section
•Philosophy of controlling and perfecting the human body through medicine.
•By applying methodical principles, mankind could achieve dominance over nature.
•Relentless will in every generation to continue research in pursuit of medical progress.
•Man could be liberated from physical ailments, diseases of the mind, and the agonies of aging.
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The Marquis de Condorcet
•Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progres de l’esprit humain (1795)
•The development of the human race was slowly but surely leaving the darkness and
emerging into the light.
•The human race knows no intrinsic limitations, it is indefinitely perfectable.
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Based on the present developments and future ideas of these
technologies, the next logical step in the field of biological engineering
would be to create an ideal human with genetically altered strength,
impervious to disease and fed with the most nutritious, healthy meals.
Furthermore, we have discovered that this field which was once
regarded as nothing more than science fiction has become an
approaching reality.