Word: ethicist
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...family's loving a child so much that it will happily raise another, identical child so that one of its kidneys or a bit of its marrow might allow the first to live. "The reasons for opposing this are not easy to argue," says John Fletcher, former ethicist...
...than muscle power. Presumably the custodians of cloning technology at that historical juncture would have faced the prospect of letting previous generations of strapping men and fecund women die out and replacing them with a new population of intellectual giants. "What is a better human being?" asks Boston University ethicist George Annas. "A lot of it is just...
...comas have given birth before, usually to children conceived before the women were stricken. And by tradition, barring a living will, doctors honor a family's perception of a coma victim's wishes. The New York woman had been a devout Roman Catholic. Says Ellen Moskowitz, a lawyer and ethicist at the Hastings Center, "It seems reasonable to conclude this is the kind of decision she would have wanted...
...opened new frontiers for transplant surgery. Thanks to Najarian's work, diabetics are no longer told that transplants are too risky for them. And it was Najarian who proved that patients could safely receive kidneys donat-ed by living relatives. "We're not talking about just any doctor," says ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "but a giant of 20th century medicine...
...ethicist Sheldon Krimsky of Tufts University points out, Harvard's conflict of interest policy gives little practical guidance to administrators governing research...