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According to Kass Professor of the History of Medicine and chair of the History of Science Department Allan M. Brandt, who will direct the program, the new track aims to “create a community of future leaders” by engaging students across disciplinary lines...
...separates two German histories. The moral rebirth of Germany after the war was, and is, premised on a radical discontinuity with the Nazi past. The new Germany is built around the thin strand of decency, symbolized by people like Adenauer and Brandt, that reaches back to the pre-Nazi era. If history is what the President wants to acknowledge, it is this German history that deserves remembrance. For Kohl and Reagan to lay a wreath at Bitburg is to subvert, however thoughtlessly, the discontinuity that is the moral foundation of the new Germany...
...just sows the seeds of conflict." Second, family members should go on a fact-finding mission to get a sense of a patient's probable desires. "Talk to as many people as possible who may know what they would have wanted, their good friends and loved ones," says Kathy Brandt, vice president of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization...
...living will is not a panacea. "It's a piece of paper," says Brandt. "It can't get at all those gray areas that happen every day." It may specify that no "extraordinary measures" to prolong life be taken. But are those measures defined? Is CPR extraordinary? A feeding tube? A respirator? What's more, in an emergency, doctors are consumed with saving lives. In practice, written directives often don't come...
...pondering how China might begin to escape from its elaborate web of political fictions, one thinks of the gestures of contrition that German leaders have made toward other Europeans. Willy Brandt penitently fell to his knees in the former Warsaw Ghetto; Helmut Kohl reached for the hand of French President Fran?ois Mitterrand in the bloodstained fields of Verdun. Such symbolism is the stuff from which true forgiveness is born and historical credibility restored. The death of Zhao presented one more opportunity for China's leadership to begin the long, slow process of doing something similar. Alas, this challenge...