ANP 370 1st Edition Lecture 16 Outline of Last Lecture I Chapter 3 of Transplant Imaginary Artificial Life a Bioengineering Alex is Carrel Willem Kolff Charles Lindbergh b Bioengineering and Morality c Erasure of Patient Suffering d Ethical neutrality e Moral challenges Outline of Current Lecture II Chapter 4 of Transplant Imaginary Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science a Science vs Morality b Scarcity c Temporality d Calculus of Life and Death Lecture Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science Experimental Science Experimental science is by definition an anticipatory enterprise outcomes are always hypothetical and unknown These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Science vs Morality The futuristic promises in science vs the moral concerns about the human and animal suffering public receptivity to experimental procedures and short and long term consequences of transformative technologies Many failures in this kind of research and lots of work without any progress promise of hope doesn t always equate to better ness of life raises moral concerns Scarcity Scarcity of natural resources such as oil wild life or indigenous people are threatened to be depleted or extinct However organ scarcity is inevitable because the supply of human organs will never match the demand Temporal Longing What is the temporal nature of moral reasoning in xeno and bio engineering Temporal how scientists think through a series of time from past to present or present to future Scientists sentiments longing and desire inform their efforts and everyday ethics shape their research design In bio every design is open to further refinement so the temporal open endlessness are celebratory while in xeno it is laced with anxiety Every new discovery and landmark is celebratory will never end Temporality Xeno scientists are focused on a distant future while bio is focused on here and now Venture capital is supportive to bio over xeno because the former is too messy and fleshy to compete with the sleek and seemingly more predictable outcomes of engineered hardware A lot of investing is pulled from xeno because there is no strong solid outcome More money goes to bioengineering Bio and Xeno Bioengineers are keen about their property rights and secretive about their design manufacturer and marketing while xeno experts see it unnecessary and humorous In bio labs the artifacts are displayed to mark how the technology has changed over time while xeno experts prevent visitors from viewing laboratory animals Xeno experts also work together and willingly share animal stock with other private companies labs and farms Why They want to see the whole field progress and if someone is going to test your pig you get rewards Bioengineers devote much attention to be successful and savvy in the marketplace They faced moral struggles such as whether they accept military funding or pursue employment in the private sector yet it is a pragmatically oriented field Xeno scientists are deeply involved to render their research palatable to the public through translational work explaining the promises and perils of their work to make sense of their work for a na ve public The Calculus of Life and Death In transplant a patient might die in relatively short increments Patients have to take medications to survive They suffer from waiting for a donor The survival and suffering become the focus Adding time to someone s life is what is important to the scientists However patients subjectively are highly abstracted in experimental science Quality of life vs price tags of the insurances investors and inventors How are you going to save me the money I don t know dead people are cheap Joseph Massey Experimental Desire Both fields contribute to the erasure of suffering and ignore the radical transformation of bodies