Word: sissela
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Until the winter sky begins to darken, Sissela Bok, the wife of the President of Harvard University, the mother of three children, the daughter of Nobel Prize winner Gunnar Mrydal, is alone in a small garret on the top floor of her Cambridge house. She has more than a room of her own up there; she has a whole land to herself where she can dream and reminisce, a land no foreigner can invade...
Bizarre Scenario. Sissela Bok, a lecturer on medical ethics at Harvard and M.I.T. and wife of Harvard President Derek Bok, is concerned about the "brutalization" of scientists and of society unless most research is banned on fetuses that might be viable (that is, able to live outside the womb). At what point fetuses become viable is, of course, a subject under hot dispute. Federal guidelines proposed in 1971 limited experiments to fetuses less than 500 grams in weight (one fetus that weighed only 395 grams has survived outside the womb...
...Sissela Bok, former research fellow in Medical Ethics, sees The Taking of Pelham One Two Three four times and hijacks the Harvard-Radcliffe shuttlebus, demanding its collected fares. Told that the bus is free, Bok demands to be driven to Cuba. The driver lies and tells her there is not enough fuel, and she is captured attempting to parachute out the rear emergency door. "We can't all be Einstein," she shrugs, as she is led away...
...Sissela Bok, handing out slightly stale Tootsie Roll Pops, smiled apologetically and explained that though her husband "tries never to miss a Halloween," he had been tied up at a dinner meeting...
...Sissela Bok, who teaches History of Science 141 with Stanley J. Reiser, assistant professor of the History of Medicine, said recently that the medical ethics course deals with euthanasia and other similar problems by "examining cases which pose questions about the ethics of the subject and discussing the difficulties encountered by physicians and patients." She said that the improvements in medical techniques over the last few decades have been a problem to doctors who know that their patients are terminally...