Word: infantability
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Doctors delivered the baby by emergency caesarean. The infant took several breaths, then died; the mother survived and went home to live with her family. Knighton meanwhile slipped away from the hospital and made his way to his father's house near Pompano Beach, where he hoped to hide out for a while. But his father persuaded him to turn himself in, and the boy was charged as an adult with second-degree murder and aggravated battery. He eventually pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and in April 1991 was sentenced to four years in the Indian River Correctional Institution...
Fortunately, technology, improved drug protocols and changing attitudes toward pain management have come to the rescue of children and adults. Skilled pediatricians now routinely give morphine to children and infants to ease postoperative pain. Oxymeters, which monitor breathing, alert nurses to early signs of respiratory problems. When morphine is inappropriate, large doses of local anesthetic work well. Pediatric-pain specialists use a plastic scale of happy to crying faces to help young children express how they feel. And doctors have learned to recognize certain infant sounds, grimaces and motionlessness as signs of suffering...
...enjoy a lavish standard of living. The affluence generated by industrialism looks even more impressive when compared with living standards that prevailed throughout most of the millennium now drawing to a close. Goods that would once have been considered luxuries have become staples of everyday consumption. Medicine has reduced infant mortality and conquered many of the diseases that formerly struck down people in their prime. A vast increase in life expectancy dramatizes the contrast between our world and that of our ancestors in the distant past...
...years, predicts biologist Leroy Hood of the California Institute of Technology, doctors will be able to take a blood sample from a newborn infant, extract DNA from the blood and insert it into a machine that will analyze 100 or so genes. "That will give us DNA fingerprints of genes that predispose us to common kinds of diseases," Hood says. Based on the genetic profile, the computer will dispense some medical advice. It might say, "This individual has a tendency toward skin cancer and should avoid overexposure to the sun." Or: "He has insufficient LDL cholesterol receptors and a proclivity...
...generations in institutions that might resemble the state-sponsored baby hatcheries in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. People of any age or marital status could submit their genetic material, pay a fee, perhaps apply for a permit and then produce offspring. "Embryos could be brought to fetal and infant stage all in the laboratory, outside the womb," says Cornish. "Once ready, the children could be fed by nurses or even automated machinery...