Category:Medicine

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Contents 1 Medical Advances 1.1 Aging 1.2 Disease 2 References

Medical Advances

Aging

• Medical science had eradicated plagues, a host of diseases and conditions, extending life expectancy to an average of one hundred fifty years. Cosmetic technology had insured that a human being could live attractively for his century and a half. – You could die without wrinkles, without age spots, without aches and pains and disintegrating bones.^[1]
• She judged him to be somewhere around the century mark, and even without murder, he'd never have attained the average twenty more years decent nutrition and medical science could have given him.^[2]
• Morris said that it was unlikely Jenkins would have made his "one-twenty."^[3]
  • Deena Flavia is described as having no genetics flaws with an estimated life span of one hundred and fifty years ("which might be considerably extended through continued advancement in medical technology").^[4]

Disease

• Walter C. Drake is credited with discovery of anticancer vaccine.^[5]
• Sexually transmitted diseases still occur in the In Death world.^[6]
• Though it was rare with in vitro testing and repair for a child to be born with a heart defect, some slipped through. An organ could be built using the patient's tissue, but that took time.^[7] Now the flawed heart could be quickly removed and replaced with what Friend called a longevity replacement that would continue to perform long after the child had used up his one-hundred-twenty-year average life (they could then be recycled and implanted in other patients).^[8]
  • Artificial organs – the process initially discovered by Friend and his team and redefined over the years – were cheap, efficient, and dependable. The transplant of human organs was not. The building of organs from the patient's own tissues was more advantageous, as there was no risk of rejection, but was costly in time and money. With current medical knowledge, human donors were few and far between. For the most part, healthy organs were harvested – donated or brokered – from accident victims who could not be repaired.^[9]
• Richard Draco's liver showed some rehabilitation. He had been a serious drinker and had at least one treatment to revitalize it.^[10]

References

1. ↑ Rapture in Death (ISBN 0-425-15518-8), p. 69
2. ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 10
3. ↑ Salvation in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15522-2), p. 157
4. ↑ Origin in Death (ISBN 0-425-20426-X), p. 206
5. ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 28
6. ↑ Strangers in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15470-6), p. 147
7. ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 108
8. ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 109
9. ↑ Conspiracy in Death (ISBN 0-425-16813-1), p. 172
10. ↑ Witness in Death (ISBN 0-425-17363-1), p. 49