Word: harmfulness
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...want to live like this." And the choice? "The family didn't make the decision," says Terry. "My brother did." Says Melody: "He did not want to become a prisoner in his own body." Of Kevorkian's cause, Terry says, "You have to put yourself in harm's way when you feel there's an unjust law. There are physicians across the country performing the same medical services. There's only one doctor willing to stand up and put his life...
...insist on controlling her own sex life. Ordinarily, I would be critical of a newsmagazine's neglecting major news issues to spotlight a minor celebrity. But I am happy you gave Monica a chance to defend herself. Perhaps her book profits will compensate in part for all the harm the government has unjustly caused her. DOMINICK FALZONE Los Angeles...
...proclamations laid out a soul-shivering truth. Medicine has a strong impetus (if not temptation) to use this technology--for basic research, for new therapies, to provide solutions to infertility or to "replace" a dying loved one. But medicine is also bound by the traditional precept to do no harm, and so it takes on added challenges--such as whether clones will die young because of their older DNA or whether they will suffer the environmental mutations picked up during the life of their adult parent...
...startling wildlife mortality in the wake of a mosquito-control campaign near Duxbury, Mass., followed by a pointless spraying of a DDT/fuel-oil mix over eastern Long Island for eradication of the gypsy moth. Next, an all-out war in the Southern states against the fire ant did such widespread harm to other creatures that its beneficiaries cried for mercy; and after that a great furor arose across the country over the spraying of cranberry plants with aminotriazole, which led to an Agriculture Department ban against all cranberry marketing just in time for Thanksgiving...
...Hippocratic oath keeps it simple, reminding physicians that first, they must do no harm. No one in medical history violated that canon with more murderous zeal than Germany's Dr. Mengele...