Word: infantalizing
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Surgeons at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California only last October transplanted a heart into Newborn Paul Holc. What made the transplant different was that the donor, a Canadian infant known as Baby Gabriel, was born anencephalic, that is, without most of her brain. Like virtually all anencephalics, she could not have survived more than a few days outside the womb; unlike most, Gabriel died before her healthy organs deteriorated. Then, early in January, surgeons in Mexico City announced that for the first time, they had successfully grafted tissue from a miscarried fetus into the brains of two Parkinson...
...some doctors, the respirator is an ideal solution: it assures a proper oxygen supply while putting off the infant's inevitable death. "There is no ethical problem with using the organs after the child is dead," says George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University School of Medicine. "The problem lies in the process of getting the child from alive to dead." There are certainly precedents for keeping donors alive artificially for the benefit of others. Accident victims, for example, are frequently kept on respirators to keep their organs fresh...
...baby love. Its male leads were two TV stars, Tom Selleck and Ted Danson, who had never seemed big enough for the big screen and a third, Steve Guttenberg, best known for fronting the Police Academy farces. The story -- of three roguish bachelors forced to care for an abandoned infant -- cradled few surprises and, for great barren stretches, got lost in a draggy drug plot. The film's direction had all the comic subtlety one would expect from that Merlin of mirth, Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy. Maybe the producers thought he was Doctor Spock...
...matter: the movie had a high awww-Q. Audiences rushed to indulge its inanities and curl into its warmth, to google like proud relatives when the infant appears at a construction site in a pink hard hat, or when Selleck tries, too manfully, to diaper his fidgety bundle for the first time. There is nothing sinister about the success of a bad picture that makes people feel good. Imagine: people want to enjoy themselves at the movies. Sometimes they can convince themselves they had a fine time even at an inferior show. It guarantees they get their money's worth...
...Aristotle, scientists have been puzzled by exactly what determines whether a baby is a boy or a girl. Last week the ancient mystery appeared to have been unlocked. A nine-member team led by a geneticist at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., announced that an infant's sex seems to be fixed by a single gene called testis determining factor, or TDF. The discovery, declared Whitehead's director, Nobel Laureate David Baltimore, was the result of a "landmark set of experiments...