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...family are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors openly consider allowing euthanasia of the sickest infants, which is legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics and urged that it "think more radically about nonresuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions ... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns...
...social problem are watching the direction that Britain is taking. The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecology has proposed that doctors be allowed to kill the sickest infants - which is already legal in the Netherlands. "A very disabled child can mean a disabled family," the college wrote to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, and urged that they "think more radically about non-resuscitation, withdrawal of treatment decisions... and active euthanasia, as they are ways of widening the management options available to the sickest of newborns." At least in Ashley's case, however much the doctors debated the proper "management options...
Pizzorno, an expert in labor politics in western Europe, taught last year at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton University, and has taught at Nuffield College, Oxford University...
Back to 1278. In retirement he enjoyed a second spectacular career, becoming, by a wide margin, Britain's most generous philanthropist. Childless and reportedly thwarted of ambitions toward a career in medicine, Nuffield lavished some $75 million on charities, mostly in medical grants. Oxford University, whose hallowed walls are close by Morris' Cowley plant, got $17.7 million for Nuffield College, which specializes in social studies, and Nuffield medical center. In return, it bestowed on him an honorary master of arts...
Giving money turned out to be less rewarding than making it. People talked about the guilt complex that drove Nuffield; the Establishment, for which he had no use anyhow, scorned him as a parvenu. Angrily, he hired a genealogist, who traced his family to Oxfordshire gentry of 1278, a date few noble lords hark back to. Then W.R.M., as friends called him, retired deeper into the shade and kept six secretaries busy sorting the 2,000 requests for funds he received weekly. Toward the end, Nuffield began to complain that "they like me for my money instead of myself," sometimes...