At the turn of the century, many new ideas and innovations started to sprout. Whether it was a new video game console or artificial hearts, the technological industry was taking off. The turn of the century was especially important for the medical field of technology. In 2003, The Human Genome Project was completed sparking the beginning of Personalized Medicine, but what is Personalized Medicine? Personalized Medicine is a new way of treating patients and tailoring treatment for diseases in specific people. According to Margaret A. Hamburg M.D with the FDA states that “the concept of Personalized Medicine is not new” (Hamburg). In order to make medicine and treatment personal, the patient often has to have their genes ‘mapped’. This concept
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Many are worried about their information getting out to health insurance companies or even employers, but have a reason to be reassured about the concept of gene mapping. “The Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) prohibits the use of genetic information by health insurance companies for determining a person’s eligibility for insurance or determining insurance premiums” (U.S. News). GINA also prohibits the use of genetic information by employers. With GINA the public can be confident about mapping their genes and knowing it won’t be used against them in any way …show more content…
While this use is widely encouraged by doctors and even the public, it could spell disaster for humanity. Throughout literary history we know that prophecy and preventing said prophecy never works out. In Greek Mythology, we see prophecies made and spoken, we then see the character go to great lengths to avoid said prophecy, and in the end, the prophecy previously spoken is still true and people die. For example, the myth of Oedipus shows us that when a prophecy is spoken, it can not be avoided no matter what the circumstances. In the most well known version of the myth, after Oedipus is born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta, a prophecy is spoken that Oedipus will grow up and kill his father, and marry his mother. In hopes to ruin this prophecy, King Laius takes his son and leaves him on the mountainside to die. Oedipus is then found by the shepherd and raised by him and his wife. Later Oedipus found out about this prophecy, but was unaware that the couple that raised him wasn’t the couple who birthed him. So he left his mom and dad in hopes to ruin the prophecy. On his way over to the next city, he meets a man and had a falling out, and Oedipus ended up killing the man, who he later found out was his father. When he got to the next city he ended up marrying the Queen, who happened to be his own mother,
Many are worried about their information getting out to health insurance companies or even employers, but have a reason to be reassured about the concept of gene mapping. “The Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) prohibits the use of genetic information by health insurance companies for determining a person’s eligibility for insurance or determining insurance premiums” (U.S. News). GINA also prohibits the use of genetic information by employers. With GINA the public can be confident about mapping their genes and knowing it won’t be used against them in any way …show more content…
While this use is widely encouraged by doctors and even the public, it could spell disaster for humanity. Throughout literary history we know that prophecy and preventing said prophecy never works out. In Greek Mythology, we see prophecies made and spoken, we then see the character go to great lengths to avoid said prophecy, and in the end, the prophecy previously spoken is still true and people die. For example, the myth of Oedipus shows us that when a prophecy is spoken, it can not be avoided no matter what the circumstances. In the most well known version of the myth, after Oedipus is born to King Laius and Queen Jocasta, a prophecy is spoken that Oedipus will grow up and kill his father, and marry his mother. In hopes to ruin this prophecy, King Laius takes his son and leaves him on the mountainside to die. Oedipus is then found by the shepherd and raised by him and his wife. Later Oedipus found out about this prophecy, but was unaware that the couple that raised him wasn’t the couple who birthed him. So he left his mom and dad in hopes to ruin the prophecy. On his way over to the next city, he meets a man and had a falling out, and Oedipus ended up killing the man, who he later found out was his father. When he got to the next city he ended up marrying the Queen, who happened to be his own mother,