Word: beckwiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society, but blamed deviance on the genetic differences between individuals. Such research, the group has repeatedly maintained, is sponsored by the ruling orders in an attempt to explain away the poverty and oppression of the lower class by fixing its cause on inherent differences in the poor. Jonathan Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, has been especially vocal in the dispute, although he says that the issue should not be confused with the personalities involved. It's not Beckwith versus Walzer, says Beckwith; it's the concerns of the people for the research they fund indirectly that...
...objection was that the doctor's announcement to a parent that her son was biologically abnormal was coercive because it left the parent, anxious over the development of her child, no real choice as to participation in the investigation. Either as a result of the outside pressure (Brown and Beckwith say) or as a result of increasingly restrictive legislation regarding informed conseent (Gerald says), Walzer began obtaining written consent from mothers to take blood tests on their boys...
Since his stroke on New Year's Eve, the court has announced no 5-to-4 vote that relied on him as part of the majority. After interviews at the court, TIME Correspondent David Beckwith reports: "A consensus has emerged among the Justices that no opinion should be issued that depends on Douglas as the decisive vote. Court sources deny that any agreement was formally ratified. But a majority apparently decided that both justice and the appearance of justice would be better served if Douglas were physically present for cases in which he was the critical vote...
...Beckwith said environment, social and economic factors affect a person's chances of being institutionalized. He said this study is one of several recent studies that "tries to explain away problems by genes and distract attention from social conditions that cause problems...
...Beckwith said he did not know when the committee would make a decision about the complaint...