Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole new set of psychological responses in transplant cases are being studied. The recipient is so unique he does not even know how he is expected to react. The heart is the most palpable of organs: How does it feel to have a dead man's pulse? The easy response is any pulse is better than none. But surely there are lonely hours when an organ recipient realizes that he is no longer totally the same...
...pool of potential donors is reduced even more by the nature of transplants. The only hearts that are usable come from victims of sudden accidents. It takes only 20 to 30 minutes without circulation to damage the heart--precious time when the organ is being rushed to a specialized operating room and a suitable patient. Organ banks will only make the shortage of donors more dramatic, and hospital wards will continue to be filled by cardiac patients hoping for the extraordinarily good luck of a healthy stranger running into extraordinarily bad luck nearby...
...course, the donor need not always die, and the organ need not be as evocative as the heart. The kidney operates silently, and there is a large pool of potential donors because most people have two. The donor of a kidney must balance the risk to himself against the reward of saving a life. For the purposes of tissue matching, relatives are preferred as donors. Often their motivation is more guilt than compassion, guilt that can blossom into resentment when all attention is focused on the recovering recipient. Once donors become a significantly large group, a whole new sort...
NEWTON COLLEGE CHAPEL. David Mitchell playing the Casavant organ, assisted by violinist Edgar Edwards. Works of Bach, Dupre, Lubeck, Mozart, and Schroeder. April...
Science did indeed bring forth a Brave New World-of transistors and miniaturized electronics, antibiotics and organ transplants, high-speed computers and jet travel. But progress came at a price. It was the genius of science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries...