Richard B Gibson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6728683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard B Gibson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard B |
| FAMILY NAME | Gibson |
| SIGNATURE | GIBSON R B |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3982-4029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1963 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Autonomy versus exclusion in xenotransplantation trials
Smart mouthguards and contact sport
The use of smart mouthguards in contact sports like rugby aims to enhance player safety by providing real-time data on head impacts. These devices, equipped with sensors, measure collision force and frequency, potentially identifying concussions that might go unnoticed during gameplay. The idea is that such enhanced monitoring will enable teams, physicians and other stakeholders to better protect players from the effects of on-pitch injury throug…
Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage
Xenotransplantation has the potential to alter the U.S. transplant system in profound ways. However, this emerging “spare parts” solution spearheaded by biotechnology companies raises concerns about its impact on the organ shortage, healthcare systems, population health, and health inequalities. We contend that xenotransplantation may have limited benefits in improving health, could prove prohibitively expensive for many, and may divert resources…
Synthesizing Methuselah
As biological organisms, we age and, eventually, die. However, age’s deteriorating effects may not be universal. Some theoretical entities, due to their synthetic composition, could exist independently from aging—artificial general intelligence (AGI). With adequate resource access, an AGI could theoretically be ageless and would be, in some sense, immortal. Yet, this need not be inevitable. Designers could imbue AGIs with artificial mortality via…
Is humanity’s survival really that important
This little piggy can’t leave the open market
A critique of whole body gestational donation
Normality and Disability in H. G. Wells’s “The Country of the Blind”
The epidemiology of moral bioenhancement
In their 2008 paper, Persson and Savulescu suggest that for moral bioenhancement (MBE) to be effective at eliminating the danger of ‘ultimate harm’ the intervention would need to be compulsory. This is because those most in need of MBE would be least likely to undergo the intervention voluntarily. By drawing on concepts and theories from epidemiology, this paper will suggest that MBE may not need to be universal and compulsory to be effective at …
Graphic illustration of impairment
The following paper examines the cyberpunk transhumanist graphic novel Transmetropolitan through the theoretical lens of disability studies to demonstrate how science fiction, and in particular this series, illustrate and can influence how we think about disability, impairment and difference. While Transmetropolitan is most often read as a scathing political and social satire about abuse of power and the danger of political apathy, the comic seri…
The Algerian Revolution Begins
Algerian socialism is still a promise, not a reality, but there is already every indication that the promise is real. At the beginning of June, 1962, the National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA), highest body at that time of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), concluded its sessions in Tripoli with the issuance of a draft program intended to guide the first steps of a future independent Algeria. The Program of Tripoli committe…
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The Algerian Revolution Begins
Algerian socialism is still a promise, not a reality, but there is already every indication that the promise is real. At the beginning of June, 1962, the National Council of the Algerian Revolution (CNRA), highest body at that time of the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), concluded its sessions in Tripoli with the issuance of a draft program intended to guide the first steps of a future independent Algeria. The Program of Tripoli committe…
Graphic illustration of impairment
The following paper examines the cyberpunk transhumanist graphic novel Transmetropolitan through the theoretical lens of disability studies to demonstrate how science fiction, and in particular this series, illustrate and can influence how we think about disability, impairment and difference. While Transmetropolitan is most often read as a scathing political and social satire about abuse of power and the danger of political apathy, the comic seri…
The epidemiology of moral bioenhancement
In their 2008 paper, Persson and Savulescu suggest that for moral bioenhancement (MBE) to be effective at eliminating the danger of ‘ultimate harm’ the intervention would need to be compulsory. This is because those most in need of MBE would be least likely to undergo the intervention voluntarily. By drawing on concepts and theories from epidemiology, this paper will suggest that MBE may not need to be universal and compulsory to be effective at …
A critique of whole body gestational donation
Normality and Disability in H. G. Wells’s “The Country of the Blind”
Synthesizing Methuselah
As biological organisms, we age and, eventually, die. However, age’s deteriorating effects may not be universal. Some theoretical entities, due to their synthetic composition, could exist independently from aging—artificial general intelligence (AGI). With adequate resource access, an AGI could theoretically be ageless and would be, in some sense, immortal. Yet, this need not be inevitable. Designers could imbue AGIs with artificial mortality via…
Is humanity’s survival really that important
This little piggy can’t leave the open market
Autonomy versus exclusion in xenotransplantation trials
Smart mouthguards and contact sport
The use of smart mouthguards in contact sports like rugby aims to enhance player safety by providing real-time data on head impacts. These devices, equipped with sensors, measure collision force and frequency, potentially identifying concussions that might go unnoticed during gameplay. The idea is that such enhanced monitoring will enable teams, physicians and other stakeholders to better protect players from the effects of on-pitch injury throug…
Xenotransplantation as a business solution to the organ shortage
Xenotransplantation has the potential to alter the U.S. transplant system in profound ways. However, this emerging “spare parts” solution spearheaded by biotechnology companies raises concerns about its impact on the organ shortage, healthcare systems, population health, and health inequalities. We contend that xenotransplantation may have limited benefits in improving health, could prove prohibitively expensive for many, and may divert resources…
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