Word: jonsen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...