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...professors that are probably most aware of the apparent ethics boom among undergraduates are Dyck, and Stanley J. Reiser, assistant professor of the History of Medicine. Their course, Hum 130, on "Problems in Medical Ethics," has registered the most phenomenal growth in enrollment, drawing 315 students this year, compared to 180 the last time it was offered...
Residents of the neighborhoods surrounding the lot, called the Sachs estate, successfully fought all Harvard's efforts to build on the estate for the last 15 years, but community reaction to the academy proposal has been somewhat more favorable, Ellen Reiser, a resident of the area who opposes the academy proposal, said yesterday...
Other residents have objected to possible parking and sewage problems surrounding the building proposal. Although Voss said yesterday the academy would hold only eight conventions annually, Reiser said some residents are also concerned about traffic and parking overflow...
...Stanley J. Reiser, assistant professor of the History of Medicine, writes that life-sustaining devices like the artificial respirator and the kidney machine pose issues still further from technological solution--the moral choice of how long to support a patient on the edge of death. The scarcity of many sophisticated medical services relative to the demand, Reiser writes, raises also the moral dilemma of how to distribute those services. With an historian's pleasure, Reiser points out that to use these latest scientific advances man must look to ethics, one of the oldest disciplines. Medicine the science has in many...
...cases. In one, a woman who had been high on drugs and alcohol at the time could recall no details of the murder of her boy friend, which she had witnessed. Figuring that her perceptions would be "similar to pictures taken by a camera lens with gauze over it," Reiser was dubious about trying hypnosis. He was wrong. In her trance the woman unerringly ticked off the killer's physical features and his clothing-right down to the stripes in his pants and the dots in his tie. A police artist put together a composite drawing that...