Word: ethicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January of 1985, Bok decided to try the elusive ethicist one more time, spurred by the recommendations of an advisory committee which advocated instituting a University-wide ethics program to train young ethics teachers at Harvard's professional schools. And this time Thompson, who was on leave in California, accepted Bok's invitation and a lifetime post as Whitehead professor of political philosophy at the School of Government...
While Thompson said he would like to see the Business School hire theologians and philosophers to teach ethics courses in the MBA program, Harvard is committed to its case study method of teaching business, which would require an ethicist to have a strong foundation in business as well...
Lacking a universal code, many people have tried to substitute specific rules. Says Ethicist Daniel Callahan, co-founder and director of the Hastings Center think tank near New York City: "When most people talk about morals, they are concerned with laws and regulations and codes." When laws do not exist to regulate a particular situation, "we assume it is pretty much every person for himself...
...easy to say, 'let's hire an ethicist and let him teach something.' Our goal is to find fundamental ways of improving this," said Bower, who is also a professor of business administration. "I don't think it's our objective to have this as an elective activity. It seems to us quite central that the required program deal with ethical issues...
Even more distressing is the certainty that AZT will be in short supply, at least for a while. Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., calls the shortage a "classic triage" situation. "Who do you give it to?" he says. "You're not going to throw the drug away on someone who is so desperately ill that he will die anyway." He is also inclined to withhold it from drug abusers, who, along with homosexuals, are the principal AIDS sufferers and might waste the treatment by reinfecting themselves. Nor does he feel anyone...