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University of Washington ethicist Albert Jonsen is concerned that people with grave illnesses might be viewed simply as carriers of genetic traits. "Rather than saying 'Isn't that family unfortunate to have a schizophrenic son,' we'll say 'That's a schizophrenia family.' " Advocates for the handicapped fear that in the future the physically afflicted may no longer be seen as unfortunates worthy of special treatment, but as "wrongful births," genetic errors committed by parents who failed to take proper action against a defective gene...
...medical community, it set off a debate over further AIDS testing. If the drug seemed to slow the progress of the disease, some researchers asked, was it ethical to conduct tests in which half the patients got placebos and thus had no chance to benefit from the treatment? Albert Jonsen, a professor of ethics at the University of California, San Francisco, concedes that the placebo question is "an agonizing problem," but he insists that placebos are the only way to find out "whether there is an effect that is attributable to the drug and not to chance...
...School of Medicine of the University of California's San Francisco campus, Father Al Jonsen is analyzing health policy issues and the moral desirability of such technical advances as the mechanical heart. From a base in Los Angeles, Fa ther Nick Weber, 33, and two companions carom round the country in a battered station wagon giving performances of the Royal Liechtenstein One-Quarter-Ring Sidewalk Circus, an amiable blend of circus acts and low-key morality plays. Weber and company live a frugal, catch-as-catch-can existence, begging meals and a place to sleep wherever they stop. A Rochester...
...Class B, Mark Jonsen was fourth in 100.1 seconds. The winner was another Dartmouth skier, Alex Cameron in 91.5 seconds, 13 racers finished out a total of 26 entrants in Class B while there were only 13 finishers from a field of 54 to Class C. A scheduled downhill event was cancelled because of poor conditions...
...Jonsen, of Quincy House and Seattle, Wash., was one of the teams steadiest performers, ending the year as senior member of the alpine squad--the slalom and downhill skiers...