Word: professionalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In his recent article in Technology Review, Fineberg discusses one of the most important and difficult issues facing the medical profession and the public today: how to balance the possibilities new technologies present for saving lives with the need to contain costs and the realities of drastically limited resources.
The Minimal Self, Christopher Lasch's book of all-over-the-page analysis and erudite grumbling, represents one such discrepancy. A sociologist by profession. Lasch made his reputation several years ago with The Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing...
"Reagan has to keep his eye on Senate confirmations," says Associate Professor of Government Harry N. Hirsch. "He will try to appoint people like Justice O'Connor who, though conservative, would not be out on a limb and are respected in the legal profession."
In addition, he says that if the medical profession devoted more of its time to reforming the system for donor organs from humans (increasing the number who pledge their organs upon death) then the need to kill animals would be minimized.
As an economist, Stone is more interested in laboring in the library than in the spotlight of public-policy making. Says he: "The economists who talk policy are striking figures, not a retiring, backroom boy like me." The new Nobel laureate is somewhat critical of his own profession, maintaining that...