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...knows that rationing health resources on the basis of age is an "austere thesis," but he takes to the intellectual battlements willingly. Thinking through the fundamental moral and practical problems of life is the unique concern of the Hastings Center, which he co-founded with Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin in 1969. Reared in a comfortable Roman Catholic family in Washington, Callahan earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1965. By then he was a leader in the effort to liberalize Catholic thought as an editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. But about 1968 "I started fading from Catholicism," he says...
Writing a book in 1968 on the morality of abortion -- he describes his stance as "conservative pro-choice" -- Callahan hit on the idea for a think tank on biomedical ethics. At the start, Callahan and Gaylin wondered if there would be enough moral issues to keep them busy. But since an initial project on the definition of death, Hastings researchers have dealt with organ transplants, artificial reproduction, surrogate motherhood (Callahan opposes it; some of his colleagues approve), AIDS testing and privacy, genetic engineering -- a never-ending list...
...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...