Word: gaylin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...which the Harvey Milk students have, in effect, been publicly identified as homosexuals. Can they really be certain of their sexual orientation? "No question," says Dr. Irving Bieber, author of a study of male homosexuality, who points out that the Harvey Milk students are "self-selected." But Dr. Willard Gaylin, chief of New York's Hastings Center, disagrees: "Adolescents are in a period of confusion about sexuality. The whole idea that an adolescent knows (whether he or she is homosexual) is ludicrous...
...Government now spends $1.8 billion a year on Medicare assistance for the 60,000 Americans who require kidney dialysis. If Medicare were to be extended to artificial-heart patients, that could mean an added burden to tax payers of as much as $5.5 billion annually. Dr. Willard Gaylin, president of the Hastings Center, an institute just north of New York City for the study of biomedical ethics, points out that such patients might be a drain on the nation's health-care system throughout their lives. Says Gaylin: "We Americans like to think of ourselves as having an open...
...culture," says Dr. John Fletcher, assistant director of bioethics at the National Institutes of Health, "but the trend seems to be that whoever gets the most publicity gets to live." After the Fiskes' example, there may be "an avalanche of similar cases," predicts Willard Gaylin, president of the Institute of Society, Ethics and Life Sciences at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. But what happens when the press tires of the same old transplant story? Do latecomers lose...
NONFICTION: The Correspondence of Boris Pasternak and Olga Freidenberg, edited by Elliott Mossman ∙Going to the Dance, Arlene Croce ∙The Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin Love, Eleanor, Joseph P. Lash Midnights, Alec Wilkinson ∙The Red Smith Reader, edited by Dave Anderson
...Killing of Bonnie Garland, Willard Gaylin...