Medical Procedure Essay

Source 3: http://www.catholic.org/news/health/story.php?id=61545 need 3 sources per paragraph

http://www.apa.org/monitor/sep05/surgery.aspx We see it every day in the media, stories about changing oneself from a medical procedure. It’s fueled by Hollywood, growing in scientific fields, and is growing our everyday life, but is it morally right? Is it really ethical to change one’s self through a medical procedure? Even though such procedures are performed hundreds of times a day all over the world, is it unethical? This idea has been expressed through different religious beliefs, most prevalent in the catholic religion. Although some Catholics see themselves fulfilling God's purpose of healing through receiving medical procedures

Thus, Daniel Keyes implies that Charlie has defied God’s will by becoming more intelligent, just like Adam and Eve, through his medical procedure. Therefore, the medical procedure performed on Charlie’s brain is morally wrong, as it goes against any

Furthermore, this is shown throughout the book after Charlie’s procedure, as he goes through a large behavioral change, from good-natured spirit, warmth, and openness, and kindness that made everyone like to have him around, morphed into an arrogant and pompous attitude, making him into an easily dislikable person than before. Thus, this is a result of his growing intelligence, which has led him to be oblivious to his newfound arrogance and superiority that comes with it, but definitely not oblivious to the peers around him. For instance, Charlie has acquired some much intelligent now that surpasses both Professor Nemur and Dr. Strauss in intelligence, as this just fuels his arrogance even more. Furthermore, this is captured when they go to the International Psychological Convention in Chicago, when Charlie questions both of their credibility in an arrogant and pompous matter, as he knows that his intelligence has surpassed them. Furthermore, when he finds that they in his mind know little about physics, as they no nothing beyond the quantum theory of fields, his arrogance bursts, as in pompously speaking he says, “Frauds-both of them…They pretended to be geniuses…But they were just ordinary men working blindly, pretending to be able to bring light into the darkness.”(pg 150, F.F.A) . Thus, Charlie’s growing