Word: organization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...self-destruction on March 6, 1970, when a luxurious Greenwich Village townhouse exploded in a serious swirl of stone, glass, and human bodies. Left dead and mutilated were three young bomb-makers, one of whom had mistakenly ignited a cache of 100 sticks of dynamite intended for some unsuspecting organ of the Establishment. The preeminent leftist campus group of the Sixties. SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) had first emerged 10 years earlier, boasting a provocative dissent from the ideals of liberal America. But by the time the organization had deteriorated into the underground Weatherman network, it had become associated...
...Hospital, where Jamie lay waiting. Two offers turned out to be useful. One, a liver from a three-year-old on the East Coast, was not suitable for Jamie, but it saved the life of an older transplant patient at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. The second organ came from a ten-month-old boy killed in a car-train collision in Utah. His father, Laird Bellon, had seen Fiske on television and specified that his son's liver should go to Jamie...
Trying to obviate such ethical questions, the American Medical Association has issued guidelines stating that organs must be allocated to patients on a medical basis alone: "Social worth is not an appropriate criterion." Instead, the basic considerations are who needs it the most and who is the most likely to do well with the particular organ that is available...
...ethics of Jamie Fiske's case were complicated by two facts: her parents had the resources and skills to find their own donor, and the donor's family specified that the liver of their child should go to Jamie, and Jamie alone. Once the organ was made available, doctors did use the A.M.A. guidelines. There were four babies at Pittsburgh equally suited to the transplant, but none had a greater need than Jamie. In addition, doctors at Pittsburgh were already busy with a liver transplant and could not handle a second one. "If another child had been...
Another dilemma would have arisen had there been a baby whose medical needs were equal to Jamie's. In that case, states Najarian flatly, "the liver should go to the child whose parents made the effort to get the organ." Not everyone agrees. James Childress, a professor of religious studies at the University of Virginia, says, "The moral decision should hinge on who had been waiting the longest, or even decided by lottery." Everyone does agree on one thing. As Jane Van Hook, Minneapolis' donor coordinator, puts it, "If more people were attuned to providing organs, the ethical...