Resources for E. mortal

From December, 2008 through April, 2009, I must have read 15 books and thoroughly skimmed another 30, and lets not forget the 10 or so movies I watched. It was an awesome experience and has sparked a deeper interest in the area of medical ethics.

The primary inspiration for the project began with my son, Will, who was born with Down syndrome on Mother's Day (unlike the rest of us who were merely born on our Birthdays!) Although I have several years of professional experience and nearly completed a graduate degree in Rehabilitation Counseling, I never had much contact with anyone born with Down. Needless to say, he has changed my life in profound ways.

As I tried to find a way to bring all of my professional experiences together into something meaningful, I discovered the world of medical ethics, particularly the emerging area of integrating technology within the body and the possible implications of going beyond mere rehabilitation to enhancement. While doing research, I encountered the excellent movie Gattaca. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it on several levels. Simply excellent.

The following reference list is loosely organized and by no means exhaustive:

Books (non-fiction)
Crash and Burn: The Survival Story of a Fighter Pilot (Jack E. Wright)
Bioethics Beyond the Headlines: Who Lives? Who Dies? Who Decides? (Albert R. Jonsen)
Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas (Ronald A. Lindsay)
Challenging Nature: The Clash Between Biotechnology and Spirituality (Lee M. Silver)
Robo sapiens: Evolution of a New Species (Peter Menzel, Faith D'Aluisio)
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us (Rodney Brooks)
Digital People: From Bionic Humans to Androids (Sidney Perkowitz)
The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology (Ray Kurzweil)
Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory (Michael C. Caroll)
Transplant: From Myth to Reality (Dr. Nicholas L. Tilney M.D.)
More than human : embracing the promise of biological enhancement (Ramez Naam)
Biotechnology and genetic engineering (Lisa Yount)
The Facts on File dictionary of biotechnology and genetic engineering (Mark L. Steinberg, Sharon D. Cosloy)
The ethics of biotechnology (Jonathan Morris)
The case against perfection : ethics in the age of genetic engineering (Michael J. Sandel)
The baby business : how money, science, and politics drive the commerce of conception (Debora L. Spar)
Stem Cells (Toney Allman)
Citizen Cyborg : why democratic societies must respond to the redesigned human of the future (James Hughes)
Is human nature obsolete? : genetics, bioengineering, and the future of the human condition (edited by Harold W. Baillie and Timothy K. Casey)
The True Believer (Eric Hoffer)

Books (fiction)
Next (Michael Crichton)
The Terminal Man (Michael Crichton)
Prey (Michael Crichton)
Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Mind Catcher (John Darnton)
The "Robot Trilogy"--The caves of Steel, The Naked Sun, The Robots of Dawn (Isaac Asimov)
Cell (Stephen King)
The Dark Tower Series (Stephen King)
The Shack (Wm. Paul Young)
The Circle Trilogy: Black, Red, White (Ted Dekker)
Death Match (Lincoln Child)
Utopia (Thomas More)
Walden Two (B. F. Skinner)
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
The Minority Report (Philip K. Dick)
A Scanner Darkly (Philip K. Dick)
We Can Remember It For You Wholesale (Philip K. Dick)
Second Variety (Philip K. Dick)
C. S. Lewis' "Space Trilogy" (specifically, That Hideous Strength) (C. S. Lewis)

Film and Television
Gattaca (1997)
Bladerunner (1982)
Total Recall (1990)
The 6th Day (2000)
The Terminator (1984) (including sequels)
Eagle Eye (2008)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) (including sequels)
I, Robot (2004)
I Am Legend (2007)
Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001)
The Island (2005)
Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009)
The Six Million Dollar Man (1973-1978)
Logan's Run (1976)

Web Sites (No particular order)
Improved Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System
http://www.airspacemag.com/how-things-work/meatball.html

Artificial people
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/manmade.html

Prosthetic Arms
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSa_mfI6INQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4iCgVOS8r4&feature=related

Genetic Therapies
http://www.wired.com/medtech/drugs/news/2008/08/olympic_doping?currentPage=2

Coma Awakening
http://www.comawakening.com/coma.html

Advanced MRI
http://www.providence.org/oregon/foundations/excellence-imri.htm

Bioethics:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/religion/post/2008/12/60107008/1
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-09-28-bioethics-expertise_x.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-09-28-bioethics-voices_x.htm

Burns:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/j215t5743q857314/ http://burnsurvivor.com/surgical_procedure.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=LOWAW88DyhcC&pg=PA871&lpg=PA871&dq=severe+burn+recovery&source=web&ots=VqK995Nhej&sig=WBS6LkUk8bQBm_IzwTnBe0KhgG0 http://www.innovations-report.de/html/berichte/biowissenschaften_chemie/bericht-38471.html
http://www.bamc.amedd.army.mil/index.htm
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2007/aug/02/brothers-pain---military-burn-unit-difficult-recov/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5570807http://archive.seacoastonline.com/2004news/9_12special.htm
http://www.capitalhealth.ca/NewsAndEvents/Features/2006/awardofcourage.htm
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=deadb9f8-f577-473a-8fc1-bd0b233d8b0e&k=59384
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/home.html

Diet/Nutrition:
http://www.ijps.org/article.asp?issn=0970-0358;year=2006;volume=39;issue=1;spage=62;epage=64;aulast=Suri
http://www.burnsurvivorsttw.org/nutrition/begining.html

Heart surgery:
http://www.cts.usc.edu/hpg-index.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070823/43/6jt8t.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6959080.stm

Calendars:
2019:http://www.hf.rim.or.jp/~kaji/cal/cal.cgi?2019
2020: http://www.ibiblio.org/ais/2020.htm

Military:
NAS Whidbey Island:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/whidbey-island.htm
USMC--"Hot Eagle": http://www.usmc.mil/marinelink/websites.nsf/unitsalpha http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hot_Eagle

Chronologies
http://www.biology.iupui.edu/biocourses/biol540/2bkgrnd6CSS.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111983/timeline.html

Germany (hospital)
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0812/homecoming.html

Neuropsychiatry
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Clinical_Neurosciences/neuropsychiatry
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29666474/

Iceland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Air_Station_Keflavik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keflav%C3%ADk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reykjanesb%C3%A6r
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceland_Defense_Force

Science and Technology
http://www.3rd1000.com/chronology/chrono.htm
http://www.orau.org/ptp/museumdirectory.htm
http://www.e-radiography.net/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29550120/

Singularityhttp://www.singinst.org/

Transhumanism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism
http://www.hplusmagazine.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocomplexity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_More
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj_-sBNQKcQ
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Brain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck4h472FzF0&feature=related
http://www.imminst.org/wiki/index.php/FAQ

Transplantation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1263758.stm

Bionics/Neuroprosthetics
http://bionic.wikia.com/wiki/Chronology
http://www.touchbionics.com/
http://www.virtualworldlets.net/Resources/ResourceList.php?ID=45
http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/3875
http://www.teebster.co.uk/hand.htm
http://www.bostonretinalimplant.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroprosthetics
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29637477/

Cochlear implants
http://www.weitzlux.com/cochlear-implants-lawsuit_1933467.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear_implants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlea

Telos (Tilos) Island
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilos
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Telos_IV
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/827869
http://www.panoramio.com/photo/11105843
http://www.aueb.gr/users/antoniadis/photos/vacations/tilos/page1.html
http://www.natura.org/sites_el_tilos.html

Writing
http://www2.nkfust.edu.tw/~emchen/CLit/study_elements.htm
http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/kochan/charactertraits.html
http://www.character-in-action.com/character-traits.htm

Stages of Grief
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model
http://www.recover-from-grief.com/7-stages-of-grief.html
http://www.memorialhospital.org/library/general/stress-THE-3.html

Loss of Limbs
http://www.amputee-coalition.org/nllic_faq.html
http://www.amputee-coalition.org/first_step_2003/psychological-aspects-amputation.html

Johns Hopkins
http://webapps.jhu.edu/jhuniverse/information_about_hopkins/about_jhu/chronology/index.cfm

Stealing Planes
http://www.slate.com/id/2127976

F18/ Navy
http://www.onemarinesview.com/one_marines_view/2007/09/f18-night-carri.html
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6DD163EF93AA25751C0A961958260
http://www.tailhook.org/AVSLANG.htm
http://www.safetycenter.navy.mil/aviation/aviationdata/index.asp
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/ships/carriers/rainbow.asp
http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=200&ct=4
http://home.att.net/~jbaugher/navyserials.html
http://www.clydepark.com/callsigns.htm
http://www.milaircomms.com/mil_callsigns.html
http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/2009/02/uss-ronald-reagan-underway-for-cqs.html
http://books.google.com/books?id=h0vp1WORkJEC&pg=PA105&lpg=PA105&dq=call+sign+aircraft+carriers&source=bl&ots=Ezd_TqHXlE&sig=Z1p7oWc8-ShhgddhxrBVpT9BpxQ&hl=en&ei=53apSfL1NdLjtgf0-73VDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LY_mgjrMFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s31Q-p4E5P0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdEvKF6F3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX24EWBKrgY

Carrier Landings http://www.avitop.com/AspNetForums/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3249 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_US_Navy_carrier_operations