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...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...
...ethicist Thomas Shannon sees it, "The application of in vitro fertilization has moved almost overnight from the lab to the clinic." Shannon, who teaches at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, might have added, and into the law courts as well. Like many other modern technological wonders, the artificial union of sperm and ovum to form a zygote, which is then frozen for eventual implantation in a woman's womb, has gone from the near miraculous to the almost mundane -- and ultimately to the moral dilemma. One current legal case addresses two of the key ethical questions raised by in vitro...
Because he spent years recruiting people likethe renowned ethicist Dennis F. Thompson andProfessor of Electoral Politics Shirley Williams,the school is now able to commit itself to astronger emphasis on ethics and politics in itscore curriculum, Allison says...
...fact, it appears that only after the announcement of the Shad grant did the B-School begin to display concern about retaining its ethics specialists. Shortly before announcement of the gift, the school advised its only junior ethicist, Associate Professor of Business Administration Kenneth E. Goodpaster, not to pursue tenure. B-School sources then said Goodpaster was told that if he sought tenure, he would be denied...
...Alameda County, the board of supervisors last January hired a professional ethicist to assist a committee of medical experts in deciding what specific services will be made available to the county's uninsured poor. "It's scary," says Dr. Marye L. Thomas, Alameda's director of mental health and a member of the committee. "As a physician, I was trained to give the best possible care to anyone, period. Back when I was in medical school, I never thought I would be discussing this...