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...that science is an ethical frontier, rapidly outmoding our ways of making decisions. As a society, we are like a child with a powerful new set of hands--a toy about which we can neither recognize all the dangers involved, nor decide who gets to hold it.Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital...
...Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 has publicly voiced his displeasure with the recent artificial heart transplant in Louisville, Ky. Fineberg called the operation a waste of money and criticized the hospital for not maintaining a broader perspective on public health. And numerous doctors at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's and Childrens Hospitals have similarly called the Baby Fae operation premature, unresearched and a waste of valuable resources...
...Brigham and Women's is the only hospital in New England to have performed a heart transplant. Dozens of such transplants have been completed nationwide...
Boucher was readmitted to Brigham and Women's November 25 after the latest of rejection led his doctors to apply for a new heart, but he died before a donor organ could be located...
Nwither Mudge nor Brigham and Women's heart surgeon and Professor of Surgery Nicolas L. Tilney '58 could say why Bouener continued to reject his heart in spite of treatment with sophisticated immunosupressant drugs...