1 = Summary The movie that I decided to review was the very influential film Contagion. This ground-breaking motion picture that depicted the modern and very possible disease outbreak that could occur within our society at any moment. Contagion was originally released in the United States on September 9, 2011. (IMDb Contagion, 2011) The cast of this movie was one of the original reasons that I was so intrigued to watch this film. The cast had many famous actors we all know including Matt Damon (The Martian, The Bourne Identity) (IMDb Matt Damon, 2017), Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix Series) (IMDb Laurence Fishburne, 2017), Jude Law (Enemy At The Gates, Side Effects) (IMDb Jude Law, 2017) and Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad, Malcom In The Middle) …show more content…
(CDC, 2014) I do hate that the editor did not mention that the CDC is a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency. The CDC works with other government agencies outside of the United States but they primarily focus their attention and resources to the United States citizens. (CDC ,2017) This includes agencies like the WHO (World Health Organization), the ECDC (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). (CDC, 2017) This movie shows people with little to no scientific knowledge how fragile society really is. One scene where the CDC employee arrives at a meeting room in a government building were the 1st US case of this disease started was talking with the government officials. She was trying to explain how serious this outbreak really could be from a scientific perspective. She makes a great attempt to explain this outbreak in the simplest of terms so that someone with no scientific knowledge could …show more content…
This motion picture is continuously switching between Mertonian norms and Mitroff’s counter norms. You have all these unique points of views like the business woman who was the 1st US death, the blogger, the print reporter, the CDC manager, the CDC investigator, the immune citizen, the CDC manager's wife, the WHO worker, the Military general and even the janitor of a CDC office. The blogger norms are explained as much more universalism because many people are trusting him based on his word and not the actual research being done. He said the government is not looking out for the greater good. He also said that “pharmaceutical company’s governments go hand and glove” are just trying to make money of death but in the end, he was the one that was not following interestedness
Dr. Glucksberg and 'Compassion in Dying' set their case saying that the ban against doctor-assisted suicide was violating the right patients right of due process and placed an unjustified burden on terminally ill patients who required help to stop suffering misery from the disease that plagued their body and/or mind.
Nayan Shah is a leading expert in Asian American studies and serves as professor at the University of California. His work, Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown explores how race, citizenship, and public health combined to illustrate the differences between the culture of Chinese immigrants and white norms in public-health knowledge and policy in San Francisco. Shah discusses how this knowledge impacted social lives, politics, and cultural expression. Contagious Divides investigates what it meant to be a citizen of Chinese race in nineteenth and twentieth-century San Francisco.
Steven Soderbergh’s film Contagion (2011) opens with a blackened off-screen shot accompanied by the sound of an unseen person coughing and then cuts to a tired sweaty Gwyneth Paltrow eating nuts out of a shared bowl at an airport bar. Superimposing “Day 2” in red lettering, Soderbergh initiates a wave of unanswered questions and his slow reveal heightens the drama and gets under your skin. The simple and effective opening begins a journey that traces the path of a new virus as it spreads across the globe, moving from host to host with the ease of a touch. Contagion uses a realist style to comment on the links of globalization, and the connected technologies that enable the rapid transmission of a virus which takes advantage of our networked
Yet those who have the most power to change them are silent. The American promise seems to be fading out of the reach of the masses of participants and perhaps Americans no longer feel the benefits associated with the Social contract. And for those who have never felt the benefit, there simply was simply never a social contract. According to (2015) according to the social contract theory; “there are three vulnerable groups, nonhuman animals, future generations and oppressed populations,” (Dr. Khalili perhaps also understood that this applied to the helpless aged and dying). “The moral rules will let these individuals have no claim on the social contract, and could be treated in anyway whatsoever” (2015, p.102).This is said to be unacceptable, but it is clearly the American way. It appeared that Dr. Khalili consciously prepared for this initiative. The fact that Dr. Kevorkian’s was arrested was a judgment that the American social contract theory did not judge the actions of Dr. Khalili favorably. Yet, in the silence of death, Dr. Khalili spoke for those who could not speak for themselves, and perhaps, Dr. Khalili achieves some heroism status with his defiance of ultimate control over his life by a system that was unjust, because it has little regard for the vulnerable
Before, there were no breakthroughs with the opportunity of saving lives. Innovations in medical technology made contributions to correct abnormal heartbeats and save lives by using a defibrillator and modern respirator. Who would know that the rapid discoveries would include successfully giving patients surgical transplants? Furthermore, President Lyndon Johnson implemented an executive policy requiring the usage of medical response trauma teams. Since 1976, this executive order has allowed the widespread use of CPR, and organizations like the American Red Cross and the American Heart Association were founded. “About 6.4 million people now survive angina chest pain each year, while an additional 700,000 people survive a heart attack each year (pg. 15 of Last Rights) Despite these remarkable breakthroughs that help those badly injured, the law becomes vague and allows more opportunities for misinterpretation on defining death. As a result, this could be advantageously used against the best interest of others and the government. “This ten-year mishmash of laws is what led the previously mentioned President’s Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, established by an act of Congress in 1978 , to tackle the first task of defining death.” (pg. 81). The President’s Commission forced the U.S Supreme Court and
The authority is who the author is and whether their contact information, credentials, qualifications and affiliations are provided (Metzger, 2010). The CDC was founded in 1946 signifying many years of experience as a well-known organization. The leadership information of the organization is available. All members and ...
1. The contrast between Cottard and the other characters is that while everyone else is in constant fear of catching the plague and doing everything they can to fight the disease, Cottard is cheerful in the fact that the plague has put a stop to the police investigating his mysterious crime . Cottard probably also enjoys the camaraderie of everyone else finally being in the same position as he is.
Jack Kevorkian was a doctor who assisted terminally ill patients to commit suicide. He believed that they had the right to die in an appropriate way; to die with dignity. He therefore invented a machine (called thanatron—a Greek word for death machine) which could take away his patients’ lives painlessly and efficiently, all they had to do was to push a button and their lives would be ended by either deadly injection or carbon monoxide poisoning. There had been at least one hundred patients who tried and died in this method. Dr. Kevorkian was charged several times with murder in these deaths. Lucky for him, a judge dismissed one of his charges because there was no evidence of murder. Jury did not find him guilty either. Nevertheless, he received numerous critics from medical professionals and media. Some people considered him as a hero while others saw him as an evil person. Not few questioned his intention; did he really care about ending his patients’ sufferings? Now that the “Dr. Death” died, all of this debate probably doesn’t matter anymore. But if it was up to me, I would most definitely not going to let him go with this easily because the way I see it, what he did was not right.
If there is one part of life that humans have trouble overcoming it is natural disasters. They are unexpected, incurable, and often unconquerable. One specific type of natural disaster is that of sickness. Plagues are disastrous evil afflictions of an epidemic disease causing a high rate of mortality ( Merriam-Webster ). A historically famous plague in the fourteenth and fifteenth century is the Black or Bubonic Plague. The social and economic affects of the plague in Europe were detrimental to the population and economy.
The Black Death had profound effects on Medieval Europe. Although most people did not realize it at the time, the Black Death had not only marked the end of one age but it also denoted the beginning of a new one, namely the Renaissance.
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Critics to the idea of providing dying patients with lethal doses, fear that people will use this type those and kill others, “lack of supervision over the use of lethal drugs…risk that the drugs might be used for some other purpose”(Young 45). Young explains that another debate that has been going on within this issue is the distinction between killings patients and allowing them die. What people don’t understand is that it is not considered killing a patient if it’s the option they wished for. “If a dying patient requests help with dying because… he is … in intolerable burden, he should be benefited by a physician assisting him to die”(Young 119). Patients who are suffering from diseases that have no cure should be given the option to decide the timing and manner of their own death. Young explains that patients who are unlikely to benefit from the discovery of a cure, or with incurable medical conditions are individuals who should have access to either euthanasia or assisted suicide. Advocates agreeing to this method do understand that choosing death is a very serious matter, which is why it should not be settled in a moment. Therefore, if a patient and physician agree that a life must end and it has been discussed, and agreed, young concludes, “ if a patient asks his physician to end his life, that constitutes a request for
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“The most good is done by allowing people to carry out their own affairs with as little intrusion by government as possible” (Gittelman 372). Dying is a part of life and since it is your body you should have complete and full control over it. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide should be available for patients because they have the right to choses there “final exit”(Manning 26). Patients shouldn’t have to experience the fear of being “trapped” on life support with “no control” (Manning 27). They should be permitted the opportunity to die with a sense of pride and dignity, not shame, pain and suffrage. To make anyone live longer against their will and is simply immoral. By denying patient the option of euthanasia and physician assisted suicide the government is vi...