Word: meds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not the first time that Rorvik's book has sparked a controversy. In March, Jonathan R. Beckwith '57, professor of Microbiology and Modern Genetics at the Med School, petitioned the federal government to release to the public information on the laboratory cloning of human beings...
...Oglesby Paul '38, director of admissions at the Med School, attributed the drop at Harvard to the intense level of competition that many potential applicants fear they would run into at the school, as well as to rising tuition costs...
Despite the drop in applicants, however, you shouldn't get your hopes up--the Med School still turns down 20 hopefuls for every applicant it accepts...
...wanted to learn about the legal aspects of medicine," Paula A. Johnson '80, one pre-med student in the course, says. "I was more interested in the practical problems facing doctors than in the ethical ones...
Harvard's own professional schools display an inconsistency in their ethics curricula that would make an interesting study in itself. Within the past four years, several new courses on professional ethics have been started at the Medical School. Dorothy Rackemann, administrative assistant to the dean of the Med School, says she has noticed an increased interest in ethics by students in the last few years, although she hasn't seen any over-whelming demand for courses...