Word: austen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gerald Austen, professor of surgery and chief of the surgical cardio-vascular unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, agreed with Nadas that the ethical implications of heart transplant operations needed further study. "I wouldn't want to imply that the ones that have been done haven't been done just right ethically," he added...
...sooner you take a donor," he noted, "the better the donor organ is going to be. Say you wait 24 hours. At present you can't use those organs." Asked if he foresaw a possible black market of hearts, Austen replied, "If these operations eventually prove to be worthwhile, then it will get tough. I just can't see how physicians could be influenced by anything but need, but I know that's naive. Somewhere it's going to have to be pretty carefully thought...
...Austen acknowledged that a lot of work had been done on heart transplants in dogs prior to the human operations, but he would not characterize the results as favorable. "We do know," he said, "that in the great majority of cases with dogs they run into a lot of problems, some dogs live for a long perod of time though, that is to say, for months...
Arthur Kinoy, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer and professor of Constitutional Law at Rutgers Law School, recounted his battle with the House Un-American Activities Committee before some 200 law students, last night in Austen Hall...
...London's Royal Academy of Music, first learned about mood music while playing the violin for silent movies. He moved to the U.S. in 1938, played and wrote the arrangements for Ray Noble's orchestra and Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. Later, with his friend, the late Austen Croom-Johnson, co-father of the singing commercial ("Pepsi-Cola hits the spot"), he wrote the signature themes for 26 radio stations. But, claims Siday, that is old stuff now. "You just can't get a good drenching rain sound with an orchestra. If Tchaikovsky were around, he wouldn...