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Behind his infectious smile and cheeky spirit, baby Cooper was suffering.
Shortly after he was born, Elizabeth Tierney s son was diagnosed with a rare and life-threatening form of mitochondrial disease, also known as mito.
The debilitating genetic disorder starves the body s cells of energy, causing multiple organ dysfunction or failure and potentially death, according to the Australian Mitochondrial Disease Foundation. It was devastating, Ms Tierney told SBS News of Cooper s time in and out of hospital. We had oxygen tanks, he was receiving 26 doses of medication each day . you don t plan a family with the thought that that even existed.
A Critic of Technology Turns Her Gaze Inward
Sherry Turkle is best known for exploring the dysfunctional relationships between humans and their screens. She takes on a new focus herself in her memoir, “The Empathy Diaries.”
Empathy, as Sherry Turkle thinks of it, is “the ability not only to put yourself in someone else’s place, but to put yourself in someone else’s problem.”Credit.Justin Kaneps for The New York Times
By Casey Schwartz
Published Feb. 26, 2021Updated March 1, 2021
In the spring of 1977, when Sherry Turkle was a young professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Steve Jobs came to visit. While he toured the campus and met with her colleagues, Turkle was cleaning her apartment and worrying over the menu for the dinner she had agreed to host.