Health Departments in a Brave New World

Brave new world. Integrating electronics into a hospital security plan.

Although approximately 90% of cameras that are currently installed in hospitals are analog-based, the trend is to switch to IP network-based digital cameras. How IT, security, and other departments can work together to successfully implement the new systems is explained in this article.

O Brave New World: The Dark Side of Cyberspace

This article focuses on some of the negative aspects of cyberspace andcyberculture. First, it offers an examination of the impact of our use ofsocial media, and Facebook in particular, on our psyches, pointing out thatusers of social media can be thought of as audiences. These audiencesand information about them can be sold to marketers and advertisers.Next, it offers a case study of a widespre...

Brave New World versus Island — Utopian and Dystopian Views on Psychopharmacology

Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a famous dystopia, frequently called upon in public discussions about new biotechnology. It is less well known that 30 years later Huxley also wrote a utopian novel, called Island. This paper will discuss both novels focussing especially on the role of psychopharmacological substances. If we see fiction as a way of imagining what the world could look like, the...

A postemotional analysis of Brave New World: HRD as unwitting collaborator or critical agent?

Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World in 1932 as a cautionary tale of the implications of totalitarianism, technology, capitalism, and mass media. The hallmarks of the futuristic society in Brave New World can be seen in Mestrovic’s critical theory of postemotionalism. Mestrovic argues that our society has slipped into a state in which emotions have been manipulated to such an extent that we now ...

A brave new world of health care.