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Dr. Jekyll's Experimentation Of Humans

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Inside every human being is the drive to discover the unknown. People want to be able to control every little thing in the world they live in, and they thirst for the knowledge to be able to do this. It is an inherent human trait to be curious. To know why something happens, the reason behind it, and the timing of the occurrence. Many devout scientists dedicate most of their time, energy, and money to be able to learn and understand the modern ideas of the world they live in. Several times these scientists may even go too far to discover these truths, and this point is made very evident in Dr. Jekyll’s experiment of two persons in one being in the exciting story of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Just as Dr. Jekyll took his …show more content…

Cryogenics preserves people in excessively low temperatures who cannot be saved by today's medicine. They are kept frozen in the cold environment until they can be revived and treated in the future with new medicines. Just as Dr. Jekyll’s transition between two different personalities seems very bizarre and freakish, this new procedure of freezing bodies also comes off as a bit strange. This new experimentation is very interesting and actually may be quite advantageous if used for the right reasons. Some disagree with the process of this procedure because they believe that death is a natural part of life, and they believe that the costs and work to preserve people through cryogenics may ultimately be pointless. However, this study could allow people with a deadly virus to be preserved so that the illness does not progress until a cure or treatment can be found. This study has many positive and negative points essentially just how Dr. Jekyll’s experiment also has. He was able to receive his own personal satisfaction, but as a result, many people were harmed due to his evil personality. In conclusion, the new research pertaining to the science of cryogenics is very intriguing because of its potential and numerous possibilities. …show more content…

In the article "Why Space Colonization Is a Bad Idea.", it is clear that this plan would be extremely difficult if not impossible and very costly. Many people disagree with this study by saying that humans on earth are terrestrial beings and have evolved for this specific planet. The earth contains all the basic necessities and even more than what each person needs to be able to live a happy life. This experiment seems very out of the ordinary, which is why Dr. Jekyll’s study resembles it in several parts. Many people would not even think to live on the moon just like many people would not think to take a potion in order to transform their personality into one that only commits evil acts. The simple fact is that by pushing to colonize and create another world away from earth is greedy and selfish of people. It would cause no greater good by moving to space; this recent study has reached an extraordinary level and has gone too

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“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson is a book that intrigues one’s mind, because it makes us question ourselves about the balance between the two opposing forces. The story starts out with Mr. Utterson, a lawyer and a great friend of Dr. Jekyll, hearing about Hyde for the first time, who is very shady and somewhat misconfigured. Mr. Utterson hears about Hyde’s bad reputation, and his usage of Dr. Jekyll’s laboratory; therefore, Mr. Utterson suspects some kind of relationship between Hyde and Dr. Jekyll. Mr. Utterson’s friend Lanyon, who is a doctor, dies after Dr. Jekyll goes into seclusion; Mr. Utterson goes to Dr. Jekyll’s house to seek the truth behind Lanyon’s death, but he instead sees Hyde dead. Mr. Utterson

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Jekyll & Hyde: The Duality of Scientific Philosophies The novella “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” has many elements of science compiled inside the story. The main scientific occurrence of the story is the duality between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which is what creates the basic concept of the story. The whole story plays around with this idea of duality and also on different scientists in the novella’s perspective on science.

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Your intellectual and emotional reaction to what you read. Regardless of how useful the founding of this experiment was, I found it highly disturbing that these prisoners were practically treated as “lab rats”. The experiments were not carried out on none human subjects before they were introduced to the experiment. Also, I think that experimenting on a highly influencable population is just plain wrong.

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Have I heard/read anything similar or dissimilar? What was it? As noted by Fescoe (2016), there are numerous experiments and studies which occupy humans or animals in order to observe their reactions and contribute with the findings to the broader science. A couple of examples enclosed to the list are; The Stanford Prison experiment, Pavlov’s dog experiment and others.

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The duality of human nature consists of the idea that humans battle between the admirable and immoral side of every-day life. In addition, humans battle their ego and self-doubt. Throughout the book, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, the reader can identify the theme of the duality of human nature. Dr. Jekyll’s outward appearance displays excellent human nature, but on the inside he embodies the corruptness of human nature. Dr. Jekyll desires immorality, but he does not want to suffer the consequences; therefore, Hyde appears in the book.

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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde centre upon a conception of human duality, they are easily viewed as an allegory about the good and evil rages within the individual. The question isn’t which one of them is superior, the question is whether or not good can be separated from evil, or whether the two are forever intertwined.

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In the novel, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson explores the complexity of human nature. He uses characters and events in the novel to present his stance on the major theme: “man is not truly one, but truly two” (125). Branching from this major theme are many more specific views on the idea that human nature is divided into good and evil. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are two very different people who occupy the same body. Human beings struggle with good and evil and Stevenson goes to the extreme to to show this relationship.

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We all can agree that Dr.Jekyll has problems. But the main problem he has is a personality disorder. There are many personality disorders that exist today, as to which one Dr.Jekyll has is the question everyone asks. Personality disorders range from, something as simple as, paranoid personality disorder to, something major like, schizophrenia. As to which one I believe he has is, schizoaffective disorder.

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First, I was injected with a radioactive material, then, while it was percolating through my system, I was bombarded with ultrasonic waves. Next, I spent 15 minutes in a machine while a gamma camera slowly circled me. Then I was taken to another room where they attached electrodes to my chest and gave me a series of injections that sent my heart pounding and took my breath away (I thought to myself this is how Dr. Jekyll must have felt like when transforming to Mr. Hyde). No transformation occurred and the effects soon passed, leaving me exhausted. Once of the injections had been a new batch of radioactive material and a few minutes latter

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Victor Frankenstein's passion for science expands the boundaries of his modern science to create life from essentially nothing. Frankenstein tells the captain the story of how he came to be found in the icy waters by the ship's crew; "So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein—more, far more, will I achieve; tread in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation" (3.4). There are always unintentional consequences that negatively affect society when boundaries are crossed; with modern science, scientists do their best to map out contingency plans to deal with successes and failures, including what to do with a synthetic material that doesn't meet the guidelines established for it. With genetic engineering, some of the negative consequences that must be dealt with include legally protecting the patents awarded for testing DNA and creating synthetic materials. There are currently several studies being completed to determine the impact of genetic diagnostic testing practices and the associated licensing practices.

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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is a cautionary tale of man's dangerous ambition when testing the boundaries of technology. It combines Shelley’s intuitive perception of science with the vast scientific discoveries of the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, specifically the discovery of the nature of electricity. In Frankenstein, electricity serves as the technological tool which creates the monster, giving life to an assemblage of lifeless body parts. Medical experiments of the time demonstrated how a dead frog leg would jolted with the injection of electricity. This phenomenon served as a bridge between science (electricity) and nature( biology).

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Representation of Scientists in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Towards the end of the 19th century, the portrayal of science in literature became more frequent than before; science has been progressing and it began to spark the interest of the readers of fiction. Supernatural elements in stories have been ascribed to scientists and experiments rather than God and miracles. However, since science still covered much of the unknown and inexplicable, the characters of scientists have occasionally been given almost godlike powers, thus prompting the readers to consider the question of morality. The scientist characters in both Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde have initially been successful with their scientific experiments and achieved groundbreaking discoveries, but have ultimately been punished for having gone too far with their experiments on humanity.

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cryotherapy, also known as cryosurgery, is a commonly used in-office procedure for the treatment of a variety of benign and malignant lesions. In one report, cryotherapy was the second most common in-office procedure after skin excision. The mechanism of destruction in cryotherapy is necrosis, which results from the freezing and thawing of cells. Treated areas reepithelialize. Adverse effects of cryotherapy are usually minor and short-lived.

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