Scientific Advances: Genetic Engineering and Body Modification

Scientific Advances
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Introduction
Medium is simply a collection of communication tools that are used to pass information from one entity to another. The human body is defined as the material frame that constitutes a human. It is the series of units and the whole collection of a person. Human body as media means that, the human body is simply a collection of exchangeable parts. It means that the body constitutes of parts which can easily be transferred from one body to another. Different ways are used in dealing with the human body parts depending what the parts are to be used in. This essay outlines the ways in which scientific advances like genetic engineering and body modification, frame the body as "media". It also gives some of the possible advantages and limitations in perception of the body as a collection of exchangeable parts, especially in terms of how bodies are normatively defined as disabled, abled, and super-abled.
The body is not just an object like any other object in the world. It is regarded as media. The parts that make up the body can easily be transferred from one body to another. The transfer of body parts from one human body to another means transfer of life. During the transfer of the body organ, a socio-cultural resource which is constituted in that particular body organ is transferred. This social value of the body organ is derived from social perceptions of the individual from which the body part is being derived from. The exchange process is only possible if and only if each side has social interests that are both legitimate and realizable. In some societies, body organs have economic value. Such body organs are usually traded. However, it is not legalized in most of these societies. Therefore, the trade of the body parts is usually done privately without any form of intermediaries. In other societies, the exchange of body parts through trade is allowed, but only through an intermediary body, which is usually a medical team that has been granted the mandate by the society.
Disability of a body is the lack ability to perform one or more activities that are considered important or major in life due to mental or physical impairment. Mental disability could be cognitive and / or psychiatric. Physical disabilities could include a wide range of impairments which ranges from hearing and vision impairments to pulmonary, cardiovascular, orthopedic and neuromuscular disorders. There has been a question of whether to term the modern machines as humans or humans as machines. This is because of the many things the frame of a human is capable of doing. According to mechanistic worldview, bodies can be regarded as machines. They can be disassembled into its individual parts just like machines. In addition, t...