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The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two
centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of
medical technology. These advances have been remarkable over the
last century, but especially over the last few decades, culminating
in such high technology interventions as heart transplants and
renal dialysis. These increases in medical powers have attracted
societal interest in acquiring more such knowledge. They have also
spawned concerns regarding the use of human subjects in research
and regarding the byproducts of basic research as in the recent
recombinant DNA debate. As a consequence of the development of new
biomedical knowledge, physicians and biomedical scientists have
been placed in positions of new power and responsibility. The
emergence of this group of powerful and knowledgeable experts has
occasioned debates regarding the accountability of physicians and
biomedical scientists. But beyond that, the very investment of
resources in the acquisition of new knowledge has been questioned.
Societies must decide whether finite resources would not be better
invested at this juncture, or in general, in the alleviation of the
problems of hunger or in raising general health standards through
interventions which are less dependent on the intensive use of high
technology. To put issues in this fashion touches on philosophical
notions concerning the claims of distributive justice and the
ownership of biomedical knowledge.
Where there is darkness, there isn't always light... Dayna Harris
thought her problems began in her bedroom. More specifically in her
bed, the bed she'd shared with her husband, Richard, for twenty-six
years. The bed where she witnessed Richard cheating on her with a
woman half his age. But maybe they really began in the motel room
that day. What conjured the dark figure Dayna first glimpsed in the
motel mirror? The dark figure that continues to haunt her as her
marriage to Richard crumbles. Consumed by Richard's infidelity,
Dayna begins unravelling his lies revealing a husband she never
knew. Now, psychologically imprisoned by a manipulative and
dangerous husband, can Dayna find the courage to leave, and can she
discover if the very real shadow that torments her is a figment of
her imagination or something more sinister? In this edgy paranormal
psychological thriller, author J.M. White takes us into the realms
of the unknown, lives that are built on lies, forces we can't
always explain and the emotional torture of domestic abuse. It
shows one woman's search for light in the darkness.
The spectacular development of medical knowledge over the last two
centuries has brought intrusive advances in the capabilities of
medical technology. These advances have been remarkable over the
last century, but especially over the last few decades, culminating
in such high technology interventions as heart transplants and
renal dialysis. These increases in medical powers have attracted
societal interest in acquiring more such knowledge. They have also
spawned concerns regarding the use of human subjects in research
and regarding the byproducts of basic research as in the recent
recombinant DNA debate. As a consequence of the development of new
biomedical knowledge, physicians and biomedical scientists have
been placed in positions of new power and responsibility. The
emergence of this group of powerful and knowledgeable experts has
occasioned debates regarding the accountability of physicians and
biomedical scientists. But beyond that, the very investment of
resources in the acquisition of new knowledge has been questioned.
Societies must decide whether finite resources would not be better
invested at this juncture, or in general, in the alleviation of the
problems of hunger or in raising general health standards through
interventions which are less dependent on the intensive use of high
technology. To put issues in this fashion touches on philosophical
notions concerning the claims of distributive justice and the
ownership of biomedical knowledge.
Gay maps out a landscape of love and death, exploring the terrain
where a person's love of life interacts with their fear of the dark
unknown. He portrays a character looking for love that reaches
beyond death--with occasional morbid consequences.
Time Done Been Won't Be No More: Collected Prose by William Gay is
a collection of short stories, essays, memoirs and an interview.
William Gay is well known for his fiction but he is also widely
published with his essays, mostly dealing with music, and his
memoirs. This is the first collection that includes his nonfiction
prose. The elegant use of language that his readers have come to
expect is as evident in his collected prose as it is in his novels.
The MRS Symposium Proceeding series is an internationally
recognised reference suitable for researchers and practitioners.
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