Word: ethicist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Sissela Bok, a Swedish-born ethicist whose parents Gunnar and Alva Myrdal were Swedish Nobel Prize-winners, said she believed people were most impressed by Palme's "sense of utter self-evidence with which he dedicated himself to public service...
Even so, many questions have been raised about the way in which consent was obtained. The hospital's refusal to release the text of the form signed by Fae's parents fueled the controversy. This document "is crucial," says Arthur Caplan, a medical ethicist at the Hastings Center in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. "Were the parents informed about the possibility of a human heart?" Others felt that Bailey may have misrepresented the facts about the "Norwood procedure," a surgical treatment recently developed to help infants with hypoplastic heart. Indeed, in his public statements, Bailey understated the success rate of this...