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手術的發明(下):從心臟支架、人工關節置換、腦部晶片,到終極賽柏格式電子人,植入物革命下現代醫療的未來

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每年,全球有上千萬人接受醫療植入物,
心臟支架、人工關節、人造水晶體、腦晶片…

當現代人的身體裡塞滿各種人工植入物,
救命、隱私、安全、倫理……最全面深入的探討。

  作為外科醫生,史耐德以成功置換肩部關節聞名,在本書最後章節中,他將討論轉向所謂的植入物革命,將外來物植入人體內,不但激發工程師、生物學家和外科醫生的想像力,也迎來人類史上最重要的轉變。——Jerome Groopman―The New Yorker
  
  本書是一部宏觀的外科手術史,由大衛•史耐德醫師撰寫,內容從古希臘醫生對人體的危險猜測說起,一路寫到改變世界的20世紀植入物革命。再加上自己接受醫學訓練的過程,以及與病患之間難忘的回憶,讓這本書更加引人入勝。

  本書上冊描述了外科手術史的進展,從瞭解人體器官和功能、找出致病細菌、探索器官被感染和產生癌變的原因,發現抗生素並創造乾淨無菌的環境,而能透過手術強力介入人們生活,最終造成外科手術的興起,也讓植入物的革命變成可能。

  在下冊中,作者著重在植入物革命在各個面向所帶來的挑戰上。從人工關節置換、心臟繞道手術、器官移植,一路寫到試管嬰兒,甚至將針對人工植入物、移植手術和生物植入物的過去發展、現在進展,以及未來賽伯格有機體將迎來的電子人時代,做了詳盡的介紹。也因應「植入物時代」的來臨,就相關醫療環境的建置,包括醫材技術的突破、醫療保險的配套、醫療挑戰倫理和人性面向等等做出全面深入的探討。

  史耐德指出,由於新技術仍不斷改變手術實作和永久植入物的性質,這最終將是一場挑戰演化並創造機器人未來的革命。本書為普遍大眾和醫療專業人員必讀之作,也是具教育意義和娛樂性的一本讀物,透過本書我們甚至將前瞻人類醫學和人類這物種的未來,思考人類醫療的「下一步是什麼」。

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 28, 2022

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Born in 1951 in Louisville, Kentucky, Tensho David Schneider was the first child of Marc, a Jew and engineer and Georgia, his southern Baptist sociologist mother. David rapidly acquired three sisters, the rudiments of a standard boomer education, and a bi-religious, Southern upbringing, involving. Saturday School and Sunday School. He grew up in Pittsburgh, PA .

He began to practice Zen meditation with a local group at Reed College, in Portland, OR and attended sesshins with Joshu Sasaki Roshi in 1970 and 71. In January, 1971, he met Shunryu Suzuki Roshi, and he says, that did it. In April of the same year, he saw Suzuki Roshi and Trungpa Rinpoche together at the San Francisco Zen Center, and that really did it

David dropped out of Reed College to move into Zen Center. He took up studies under Richard Baker Roshi, and in 1977, he received ordination as unsui or “cloud-water person.” He did many academic and practical jobs as part of community life there, which ran from 1972-85. The 1983 scandal at SF Zen Center led to the departure of Baker Roshi. In 1984, in the formal shuso ceremony, David was ordained as a head monk at the Hartford Street Zen Center in San Francisco.

In 1985 David was formally accepted by Trungpa Rinpoche as a student. He attended Vajradhatu Seminary in 1986 and staffed Seminary again in 1988.

David wrote Street Zen, a biography of Issan Dorsey, published in 1993 by Shambhala Publications, and again in 2000 by Marlowe. Street Zen won several prizes, included “Best Buddhist Book of the Year” in 1993. In 1994 he co-edited with Kazuaki Tanahashi a collection of zen stories, titled Essential Zen.

In 1995, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche appointed David Director of Shambhala Europe by, a position he held until 2003. David now works for Vajradhatu Publications Europe; he continues as well to pursue writing projects – currently, a biography of Beat poet and zen master Zenshin Philip Whalen – as well as calligraphy exhibitions. Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche appointed David to the post of acharya in 1996.

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