Word: biologist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Poskanzer view still has not won total acceptance. Dr. Caleb Finch, a biologist at the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center in Los Angeles, is one of many researchers today who point out that it is still only an intriguing hypothesis. Finch notes that little is known about the effects of aging on the brain. There may be other causes that produce symptoms of Parkinsonism without being clear-cut cases of the disease...
Last week another call for death with dignity-one certain to provoke a sharp ethical debate-appeared in the new issue of the bimonthly journal The Humanist. Entitled "A Plea for Beneficent Euthanasia," it bears such diverse signatures as those of French Biologist Jacques Monod, Situation Ethicist Joseph Fletcher and CORE Founder James Farmer. The document recommends not only the "passive" euthanasia now widely advocated, but "active" euthanasia as well: direct action to speed the death of a dying patient-an act that is technically murder. (No country has yet legalized euthanasia, though in some nations a compassionate motive...
Ramsey receives both support and strong criticism in the same issue of the Hastings Center Studies from Dr. Leon Kass, a physician and molecular biologist who works in biomedical ethics. Kass takes issue with Ramsey's view of death as an "indignity," insisting instead that "to live is to be mortal." Jewish, if not Christian teaching has generally held that view, Kass says; evolutionary biology confirms and strengthens...
...years ago, Jacob Bronowski, a Polish-born, English-educated mathematician, historian and biologist, traced man's scientific development in a widely acclaimed 13-part BBC television series, The Ascent of Man, which will reach U.S. TV audiences next season. Now he has adapted his scripts into a book. The result is a long (100,000 words), fascinating, beautifully illustrated essay about the qualities of curiosity, imagination and inventiveness that lead man to explore the world and the invisible laws that order it. The book is also an exercise in optimism. With so many scientists predicting that humanity will destroy...
Hoping to go on to medical school, she took graduate chemistry courses and worked as a laboratory assistant to Biologist Robert Macy, who has described her as "interested in drugs and consciousness-raising-type pursuits." In February 1973, her six-year marriage to Black Pianist Gilbert Scott Perry broke up, and she began a drifting, seemingly aimless existence, working variously as a topless blackjack dealer in a North Beach nightclub and selling soft drinks from an outdoor stand. On Jan. 10 she fled a rented house in suburban Concord used by the S.L.A. as a headquarters, after trying...