I am currently in the middle of The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson, and a lot of ethical dilemmas have shown up. Sometime in the near future, Jenna Fox, 17, awakens from an 18-month-long coma following a devastating accident, her memory nearly blank. She attempts reorientation by watching videos of her childhood, "recorded beyond reason" by worshipful parents, but mysteries proliferate. I know that this story is in the near future because they have really advanced technology. She really tries to get her old life back. She goes to school and makes friends. She also finds out more about why she moved and it becomes mysterious to her. As this is going on, many ethical dilemmas are popping up. The reason why I think that there are many ethical dilemmas is because there is more technology in the future. One ethical dilemma that I found was with the Federal Science Ethics Board.
In this book, the Federal Science Ethics Board runs the ethics office and do all of the research and they do a lot of medical procedures. They bring up a couple of ethical dilemmas. One of them is that the shut down whole hospitals if they don't file all of the forms and if they don't report every procedure. This might be good to the FSEB but I personally believe that this is not morally right. Shouldn't every area have a hospital so that the people who are sick or injured can get to a hospital fast, and have a higher chance of surviving? In addition, this rule also has an upside. This will get the hospitals to work faster and have everything on record just in case if they need it. The FSEB needs to be the central control over hospitals. I personally think that it is not right for the FSEB to do what they are doing. Having hospitals are an extremely important thing, and everyone has the right to have one near them. It's just like why there should be more hospitals in less populated places, because when someone needs to go to the hospital, they have to travel far, and it increases their chances of dying or getting hurt more.
Another ethical dilemma that occurs because of the FSEB is with Blue Goo. As Ally describes it, "it's artificially oxygenated and loaded with neurochips. They're smaller than the human cell and communicate with each other pretty much the same way neurons do, except faster. And they learn. Once you've loaded them with some basic information, they pass on information to other neurochips and begin to specialize..." They are basically new cells, and there is controversy over it. One way they do it is with point values. Everyone gets a lifetime maximum of 100 points. An example is that a heart is 35 points. I personally feel that this is very fair. It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control. Shouldn't everyone have the right to have for good healthcare? I feel that this is a very good idea, and we should use it when we have the right technology. Many people are poor and die because they don't have good healthcare and they don't have the money for something like a heart transplant. This sound like a good idea, but personally think that there are some flaws with it. What happens when someone needs more than 100 points? I'm not sure if you can pay for it, but i'm pretty sure that u can't exceed 100 even if you have the money. I don't think that is right because if you are in a tragic accident and you are rich, you can't survive and get more Blue Goo.
In conclusion, The Adoration of Jenna Fox, by Mary E. Pearson, has many ethical dilemmas, and some of them are good ideas that we should us in the real life when we have the technology. An example of a good idea is with Blue Goo. Everyone gets a lifetime maximum of 100 points. I personally feel that this is very fair. It doesn't matter how rich or important you are. Everyone's in the same boat. And medical resources and costs are kept under control. Also, there is this other ethical issue with the FSEB and them closing down hospitals. I don't think that that is the right thing to do. In class a couple of weeks ago we watched the movie John Q, and it was an amazing movie. The main character's son had a heart problem, and they needed a heart transplant and they were poor so the main character had to take desperate measures to get his son a heart transplant, and that includes holding the whole hospital hostage. I think that if they have a system like they did in this book with the points, it would be better for his son, and the main character wouldn't have to hold the whole hospital hostage.
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