Medical

The field of Medicine is dedicated to keeping us our best in order to delay our inevitable human death. However, it seems that the longer life expectancy is stretched, the more boundaries modern medicine races to cross. The introduction of gene therapy, stem cells, and even robotics has moved us into the era of cyborgian health care which has created many ethical and moral debates. With every major medical discovery and improvement, we are coiling ourselves tighter into dependence and acceptance of cyborgs. As our future unfurls it will become even more pertinent to ask ourselves; are we willing to embrace cyborg dependence to discover immortality and perfect health?

Menstruating Cyborgs: Insights into the Technology of Menstrual Suppression
About using pharmaceutical technology to suppress women's menstrual cycles. Examines the history of cultural attitudes and medicine that shape current practices of hormonal regulation and suppression.

Prosthetics: A Cybernetic Evolution
The term "cyborg" is culturally attached with certain stereotypes or stigmas, but many people don't realize that something like prosthetics are incorporated into this term as well. it is estimated that there are between 400,000 to over a million amputees living in the United States.

BCI Technology, Not Just a Dream
Describes all the different field related to by brain-computer interfacing.

The Robotic Heart
It is possible that in the future people could have many of their organs replaced and become a living human robot, a cyborg. The heart has been an area of intense research during the past fifty years.

Medical Cyborgization
The use of foreign devices implanted into the body as a way of medical restoration, has been employed in medical science for decades. Medical research has focused heavily on restorative technology. Even though huge strides have been made in this area of medical science, there are still gaps in critical places, such as restoring full movement and senses to a paralyzed body. Medicine-based restorative implants are employed in every part of the body, from the brain all the way down to the feet.

Assisted Reproduction and In Vitro Firtilization
Concerning the ethical implications and a technical description of in vitro fertilization.

Nature Using Technology Using Nature
A summary of the current and past research being done on medical nanomachines built from or inspired by organic material. Looks at nanobots and their use with DNA to solve problems, nanocomputers, and nanobot design.

The Invisible Machine
Discusses the uses of nanotechnology in the biomedical field. It covers nanotechnology's role in the treatment of cancer, the use of liposomes in drug delivery, the use of archaesomes as vaccine adjuvants. It further outlines the potential for nanomachines capable of creating proteins on the cellular level, or signal transmission. It also review power sources, military applications, the game series Metal Gear Solid, and nanoparticles.

Bacterial Therapeutics
Bacteria can now be engineered to be an organic cyborgian component for use in medical therapeutics.

The Future Present of Brain Interfacing
This article describes the current commercially available devices for interfacing a brain with a computer game, as well as what may be possible in the near future.