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...Organ Ethics...
...ordered back into surgery for minor repairs. The operation went well, but Clark still faces a high risk of blood clotting, pneumonia and especially infection, which could develop around the tubes that enter his chest; they carry the pulses of air that drive the heart. But the artificial organ does have a key advantage over one from a human donor: since the plastic device contains no tissue, Clark's body is less likely to reject...
...book form (Knopf even managed to squeeze in a three-and-a-half page postscript dated September 21 on the refugee camp massacre in a frenzy of greedy haste. One expects this sort of thing from the cheapest of publishers, those who catalogue the incineration of every organ of every boy of the men who died in the Iranian hostage rescue mission for consumption three days after the fact. Not two firms with the reputation these enjoy...
...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...
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...