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Which of these books should I read for Summer Reading?


Which of the following (Theres a description beneath each title in case you haven’t heard of any of them):

Nineteen Minutes Jodi Picoult Fiction
In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents.

The Fifth Child Doris Lessing Fiction
In The Fifth Child, the Lovatt family, once idyllic, unified and happy, struggle when the fifth child, who is an outcast and disliked by his brothers and sisters, disrupts the family dynamics.
^I can relate a lot to that one, I’m like the fifth child, except that I was second.

The Memory Keeper’s Daughter Kim Edwards Fiction
A doctor, forced to deliver his own twins, makes a life-changing decision about the fate of one born with Down Syndrome that haunts him and his family.

My Sister’s Keeper Jodi Picoult Fiction
Conceived to provide a bone marrow match for her leukemia-stricken sister, teenage Anna begins to question her moral obligations in light of countless medical procedures and decides to fight for the right to make decisions about her own body.
- The Party Scene

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Invasive surgery avoided through teleportation or matter-to-energy conversion?


I know little of physics. Imagine if medical procedures once “invasive” due to cutting, like the retrieval of an organ, became less invasive because of a device that would allow the organ/body part to somehow pass through the skin unharmed. “Star Trek’s” teleportation is fiction. What is a believable method? I read a little about “gravity waves”, that they can pass through things unchanged, but I don’t understand their application to the conversion of matter to energy in this situation. Could an organ be converted to a gravity wave, pass through skin, and then be usuable?
In Greg Iles “Footprints of God”, the brain was scanned with an MRI and was uploaded to a computer, and the computer became the person. Replication/cloning leaves too much room for error. Could anything allow something to pass through the skin unchanged? Could a solid matter to energy conversion take place to allow an organ to pass through the skin, to then be converted back? What device(real or not) could do it?
This is a serious question. I am analyzing what would happen legally to human rights if procedures that are invasive now were rendered non-invasive due to physics/technology. I really want to know if it could ever be done. If so, surgery would no longer be surgery. If it is impossible, then it’s simply a matter of whether Big Brother would decide to pass laws that subject people to invasive surgeries anyhow.
- attyoncall

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