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...transplants morally justified? Since all the principals at the symposium had performed transplants, they had answered this question long ago in their own minds. But there remained some sticking points in medical ethics. How to determine the death of the donor? On three criteria there was general agreement: The patient must no longer have any natural heartbeat, or respiration, or reflexes. Beyond that, he must have a "flat" electroencephalogram-no "brain wave" activity-but for how long? After the closed sessions in Cape Town, all that Spokesman Cooley could say was: "We have reached some agreement as to the nature...
...second ethical-medical question was: How to select the recipient for a transplant? Most operations so far have been performed on men with advanced and long-standing heart disease. In such cases, it seems that a new heart may be wasted on a patient with negligible chances of survival. But can a doctor, in good conscience, pass over the man who is most severely ill and doomed soon to die, in favor of a younger man with more vitality, whose need is less urgent but who has a better chance of survival? On this score, said Cooley...
France's third heart-transplant patient is a man to whom the ethics and morality of the procedure are of more than usual concern. Father Damien Boulogne is a former professor of philosophy at Dominican seminaries. Two years ago, the priest had suffered a series of heart attacks that left him to tally disabled. Now 57, Father Damien got his new heart at the Hôpital Broussais-La Charité in Paris, where he is now recovering in sterile isolation. From there he wrote for La Vie Catholiqué an account of the soul-searching that preceded...
Greece's junta leaders like to think of the country as a patient that requires their constant attention. Last week, as the regime finally made public its long-awaited new constitution, Colonel-turned-Premier George Papadopoulos put on his best bedside manner...
...have a sick patient here," he told newsmen. "We must decide how soon he will be able to walk and when we should remove the plaster cast. But if we decide the patient needs more plaster, we will give...