The New Atlantis, Fall 2005

Published November 17, 2005

By Adam Keiper & Christine Rosen, et.al.

The latest issue of The New Atlantis includes major essays on the future of modern medicine, the moral education of our doctors, buggy software and missle defense, our perception of reality in the age of Photoshop, Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis, and much more.

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Essays:

• Conservatives, Liberals, and Medical Progress
  Daniel Callahan on politics, death, and the future of modern medicine
• The Moral Education of Doctors
  Philip Overby on shaping the souls of aspiring physicians
• The Image Culture
  Christine Rosen on Photoshop, PowerPoint, and our perception of reality
• Buggy Software and Missile Defense
  Mark Halpern on writing code and protecting the country
• Love in the Age of Neuroscience
  Mickey Craig and Jon Fennell on Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons
• Francis Bacon’s God
  Stephen A. McKnight reconsiders the religious foundations of the “New Atlantis”

Excerpt:

• The Aging Self
  A selection from Taking Care, a report by the President’s Council on Bioethics

State of the Art:

• The Lessons of Hurricane Katrina
• Back to the Moon by 2018 — Or Sooner?
• Are Republicans Conducting a “War on Science”?
• Remembering the Founder of the Hospice Movement
• Hollywood’s Fertile Imagination
• Chief Justice at the Bedside

Looking Ahead, Looking Back:

• A New Approach on Climate Change?
• Einstein’s Annus Mirabilis