Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Greeks," the recorded speech said, "the moment has come for you to hear the voice of your King. Today I put an end to anomaly and violence. I ask the Greek people to assist me in re-establishing the moral values that were born in this land. The change that takes place today will not allow the prevalence of a spirit of revenge against those who committed errors. But I wish to make it clear to all that I will no longer tolerate any disobedience, which will be stamped out mercilessly...
...medicine's power for prevention, for healing grows, as progress made in conceptual and technical matters grows, it is evident that moral and ethical problems increase in kinds and in complexity. I think it may be profitable to take a look at the underlying situation. And to do this will require an examination of some underlying propositions...
...Vested interests impinge on most moral choices. This stuation is not difficult. It will be best to consider whence these pressures come. Their presence calls for caution...
Just a Pump. For the surgeon who would transplant a heart, the problems are manifold and more difficult, with moral and ethical as well as medical considerations involved. Since ancient times, the heart has been apostrophized as the throne of the soul, the seat of man's noblest qualities and emotions-as it still is in poetry and love songs. But even the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano noted last week that "the heart is a physiological organ and its function is purely mechanical." In fact, the heart is nothing more than a pump. There is no more...
...real moral and ethical difficulty in heart transplants arises from medical uncertainty. Even when the heart has "stopped cold" and there is no more respiration, the condition is often reversible-as is proved countless times every day by first-aid squads and lifeguards as well as doctors. The surgeon wants the donor's heart as fresh as possible, before lack of oxygen causes deterioration or damage-that is, within minutes of death. This has raised the specter of surgeons' becoming not only corpse snatchers but, even worse, of encouraging people to become corpses. The question remains: Where should...