Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
...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...
...early September Potter will discuss unsettled problems, like what to do about someone in irreversible coma, in The Villanova Law Review. He will say that the report shifts the definition of death from the intuitive to one of sharply calibrated expertise...
...many. Doctors are dedicated to the extension of human life by virtue of the binding Hippocratic oath. In the light of family feelings and the traditional Western regard for life, it is difficult to turn of the respirator, as the report recommends, just because a report redefinition of death is satisfied