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Committee theologian Ralph Potter felt that important issues were ommitted from the Beecher committee's re-evaluation of human death. They brought it to the public hoping to stimulate discussion, according to Mendelsohn, and Potter will be among the first to comment...
...Beecher asked Robert H. Ebert, dean of the Harvard Medical School, to sponsor the Ad Hoc Committee to Examine the Definition of Brain Death. Testifying before a Senate investigation into scientific research on humans increased Beecher's feeling that such a committee was necessary...
...insure divergent viewpoints, the committee drew on various branches of medical faculties. For good measure Ebert and Beecher got some non-medical types to join the crew; they felt that death was not simply a matter of medicine, but also one for other disciplines, especially religion and law. Everett I. Mendelsohn, associate professor of the History of Science at Harvard, joined up after Beecher saw him at a conference on the social implications of biology and chemistry, because he felt his historical background would broaden the group. Ralph Potter was pulled in from Divinity School because Ebert wanted a theologian...
...this report, which prescribes a method for pronouncing death based on the condition of the central nervous system, was mainly a Beecher baby...
Harvard faculty committees aren't much more successful or efficient than less star-studded one. Attendance at committee meetings was often sparse. Few members were persistent enough to probe all possible angles of the question. Instead of growing out of long dialogues, the committee's report came from Beecher's drafts...