Word: ethicist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THINK ethics would be the least of Harvard's problems, It has two ethics programs. It has professorships in ethics. The University boasts about its commitment to strong ethics. President Derek C. Bok writes about ethics. His wife is an ethicist...
...July, Bok will be headed back to California, where he grew up. He and his wife, philosopher-ethicist Sissela Bok, will spend a year in Palo Alto as fellows at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford...
...anything but gung-ho to fight. War theorists make no distinction between a cynical professional soldier and an innocent, reluctant one. "Anyone in a uniform is a fair target," says Nicholas Fotion, a professor of military ethics at Emory University. But other analysts see a gray area. Says ethicist Robin Lovin, an associate professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School: "I'm not sure that carpet bombing conscripts is morally different from bombing civilians...
Despite this ruling, few legal experts think Bosze will prevail. "The legal tradition is very strong that you can't invade a child's body to help another," says medical ethicist Daniel Callahan. But he adds that Curran's moral case is far weaker than her legal one. "She is being asked to put her children at comparatively slight risk to save the life of their half brother." Sadly, as Jean-Pierre's condition worsens, the issue may soon be moot...
...Stanford University Hospital, the average cost was about $160,000. Nationally $2.6 billion is spent on neonatal intensive care each year, according to a recent report published in the American Journal of Diseases of Children. Despite the extraordinary measures taken, half the survivors face a lifetime of disabilities. Now ethicists are asking if it is time to consider limiting treatment to conserve health-care dollars and reduce suffering. Says Stanford ethicist Ernle Young, one of the A.J.D.C. authors: "To do cost-ineffective things, without being assured the results will be beneficial, will be increasingly seen as irresponsible...