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...Rather than take on our central premise, he says how indispensable industry is to churning out new products,” says David J. Rothman, who directs the center for the Study of Science and Medicine at Columbia University. “What we are saying is that you need to make sure there are firewalls between industry and medicine...
...country into the most extraordinary burst of economic development the world has ever seen. Outsiders have been predicting that it couldn't last ever since. The financial and economic crisis currently plaguing the globe has lead the whole world into unchartered territory. If the likes of Kroeber and Rothman are right, the one thing that could remain constant in a world where nothing seems fixed is China's ability to surprise us once again...
...heart, the hospital's initial rejection sparked a heated debate on how to evaluate transplant candidates. The dearth of donor organs in the U.S. often forces doctors to select one patient over another. Usually the choice is made solely on the basis of medical need, but, says David Rothman, professor of society and medicine at Columbia University, ''social criteria sometimes enter in.'' Few hospitals, he notes, will offer a liver to an unrecovered alcoholic or a heart to an inveterate smoker...
...wince even more at the authors’ inevitable slip-ups. And yet, because the tales are confessions, they become all the more endearing. While some of the accounts supply the down-and-dirty details, others have a softer, more tender side. In one of these true tales, Rodney Rothman, former head writer for Dave Letterman, awkwardly talks to a childhood sweetheart about their young love. As their conversation goes on, the awkwardness fades as they gradually realize that their old love never completely went away. The thought that people can sometimes rekindle a love they once thought extinguished infuses...
...years before abortion was legalized, feminist medical pioneer Lorraine Rothman set out to put women's health care in the hands of women. The California clinic she co-founded taught patients how to perform their own cervical exams and pregnancy tests and, controversially, offered an extraction device Rothman developed that could be used for at-home abortions in the early stages of pregnancy. The method angered medical professionals but, in the words of social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, "legitimized the notion that [women] have the right to ... decide about procedures ... that affect our bodies." Rothman was 75 and had cancer...