Word: journalism
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Unsuspecting Hundreds. "Since World War II," says Dr. Beecher in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine, there has been "increasing employment of patients as experimental subjects when it must be apparent that they would not have been available if they had been truly aware of the uses that would be made of them. It seems obvious that further hundreds have not known that they were the subjects of an experiment." Dr. Beecher charges that "grave consequences" have been suffered as the result of such work. In no case does he name the hospital or doctors involved; in no case...
Other investigators who recognize their work in Dr. Beecher's study may also supply convincing rebuttals. The New England Journal itself offers a restrained and judicial editorial opinion: "In research conducted on such an expanding scale in the last two decades, the desire for results seems too often to have outweighed the means of arriving at them." As a guideline for researchers, the Journal quotes the great French physiologist-researcher Claude Bernard (1813-78) on human experiments: "Those that can only harm are forbidden." Those that involve no foreseeable harm to the patient are "innocent" and therefore permissible. "Those...
With the announcement that the New York Newspaper Guild and the Newspaper and Mail Deliverers' Union had reached agreement "in principle" with the publishers of the World Journal Tribune last week, New York's two-month-old newspaper strike seemed to have taken a long stride toward settlement. But there was many an acrimonious argument left to be resolved. And the Guild negotiators were obviously in no hurry to call a general meeting where Guildsmen would ratify the "package" that had been so laboriously worked...
...Tartar" in a "mansion of gross sensuality," he published a long theatrical review (signed "A Genius") and a volume of atrocious verse. At 22, though he had four liaisons running concurrently, not to mention the trulls he slept with in teams, he found time and energy to start his journal...
...Voltaire. In the course of a furious argument about God, Boswell pressed so hard that the wily Frenchman feigned a faint to gain a respite. But when Boswell left, they were friends and he was walking on air. "What variety my mind is capable of!" he wrote in his journal. "I have a noble soul...