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Deane Lord, director of the Harvard News Office, charged around her office in a huge raincoat, giving orders to nervous underlings, attempting to look very important before she settled her huge presence into her desk chair. She announced quite firmly that Sissela did not want the family in the article. Derek Bok had explained, regretfully, that the family already lives in a fishbowl...
...This is a first on Sissela," Lord said. "She doesn't want the full profile; what she sees this as is a presentation of her work to the community." The decision was made that Sissela would spend an hour talking solely about her work and her views on child raising. No family related questions were to be discussed. Lord argued a strong case for focusing the article on Sissela's work, "She's more of an impressive scholar than he is," Lord proclaimed finally...
...hour interview with Sissela went on guardedly under the scrutinizing eye of Deane Lord. Any remarks related to the family were checked. Sissela was even cautious about discussing her own academic theories. When asked what specific limitations she would place on fetal research, for example, she replied with a little laugh, "Oh, this is so complicated, maybe its better you know if you call me at home, I could go over my papers and things like that." Her articles are very categorical. Her theories are in outline form. She is very organized. As a guest lecturer on lying and deception...
...Sissela serves on a hospital committee on human experimentation and is regularly consulted by doctors both as a committee members and as a medical ethics specialist. But she doesn't feel people respect her opinion. She asked repeatedly to have quotes read back to her before they were printed "because otherwise, you know, doctors will read these things and say, 'My God, now what's she saying?' Then it turns out its not even something I did mean...
...Harvard parties, many guests end up discussing controversial issues and court cases involving medical ethics with Sissela. She presents the whole situation but never ventures an opinion on which way the decision should go. A trustee of the hospital Sissela works at explained, "She was very interesting to talk to on the Quinlan case." But even there she did not advocate a particular solution...