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...much hyped new memoir, Drinking: A Love Story, 37-year-old journalist Caroline Knapp unravels her tumultuous past life as a "high-functioning" alcoholic. The term is one she borrows from A.A. parlance, and it refers to the sort of boozer who lives well above the gutter, getting good grades at fine colleges, meeting deadlines, summering on Martha's Vineyard. Like most writers and filmmakers who have chronicled the middle-class drinking life, Knapp writes from the prevailing modern perspective that alcoholism is another challenge to be surmounted, a demon to be confronted, a battle...
...cancer was at least equivalent to many other procedures that we do every day," he says. As early as 1990, even Health Net had found evidence that bone-marrow transplants might become a standard weapon against breast cancer. That year the company's then chief medical officer, Dr. Leonard Knapp, ordered a study by Technology Assessment Group of San Francisco to evaluate the treatment. The report, however, didn't reach the conclusion he had hoped for. It found that 3 out of 4 insurers paid for such treatments and, moreover, that by 1991 transplants would probably become "prevailing practice among...
...Knapp told TAG's project director, Janna Lee Smithey, he was "very disappointed" in the report, she testified in the 1993 civil trial. When she asked him why, he replied, "Because you didn't tell me it was experimental." He said it in a joking way, but in fact the report had perturbed Dr. Knapp, who stated in his own deposition that the report's data did not support its conclusions; he recalled raising "a little hell about it." The report apparently was never circulated very widely. In depositions last year, both Dr. Ossorio and Dr. Sam Ho, by then...
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...coming under increasing scrutiny, raising fresh examples in the ongoing debate over experimental ethics. How can scientists be held accountable for harm to an experimental subject? Must individual rights always supersede the quest for knowledge? "This is an issue that has been around since the Nazi experiments," says Susan Knapp, the APA's director of publications. "If the conditions for a research project were unethical but the science is good, what do you do with...