ABSTRACT
The encounter between relatively unchanging human beings and the state of permanent change created by science and technology across innumerable advances will be represented, by reports from two areas of medical advance – heart transplantation and prenatal medicine. In some others the belief seemed to reflect an identification of the baby with a baby in their mind who was never meant to be conceived. Some of the mothers were anxious and pessimistic about the baby's future. Adding to the problem of human destructiveness, the rapid advances in genetic biotechnology and in medical science combined with those in computing are presenting to the species a new problem – human creativeness. The 'business' of heart transplantation gets into the lives of every member of the medical team too. The members of the medical and surgical team need to be dedicated and highly trained and they are working at the edge of their knowledge.
