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...older women the benefit is as evanescent as, well, smoke. Any protection against uterine cancer that smoking offers, scientists say, is far outweighed by the enhanced risk of developing cancers of the throat, stomach, bladder, pancreas and lungs, as well as heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis. Comments Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health: "To smoke cigarettes in order to reduce your risk of uterine cancer is like looking for a gas leak with a lighted match...
President Bok announces the appointment of Professor of Health Policy and Public. Managemnt Harvey V. Fineberg as the new dean of the School of Public Health...
...Recently Fineberg discussed with The Crimson some of the questions raised by the speed of new discoveries, the inadequate ethical guidelines that now exist, and the prospects for overcoming the difficulties presented by current medical dilemmas. Following are excerpts from the interview...
...Fineberg: At one level, the problems of ethics imposed by technology have to do with life-sustaining methods in cases where life isn't really what we'd call "living," when it's not even in the patient's best interest. On another level, which is harder to evaluate, are the societal ethical questions. For example, there are too-expensive technologies which could create a system of multi-class care which is undesirable. Or, some issues carry ethically-charged questions like the right to life, such as decision-making about life-support systems. It's the latter group [societal...
DEAN OF the School of Public Health Harvey V. Fineberg '67 has publicly voiced his displeasure with the recent artificial heart transplant in Louisville, Ky. Fineberg called the operation a waste of money and criticized the hospital for not maintaining a broader perspective on public health. And numerous doctors at the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's and Childrens Hospitals have similarly called the Baby Fae operation premature, unresearched and a waste of valuable resources...