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IF THE HEART is the source of the passions, of the emotions, what was the mechanical device implanted in Barney Clark's ribcage? It pumped blood for four months, keeping him alive. It also raised more pressing questions than this odd psychological one, especially now that medical history's second...
Organ transplantation is no isolated controversy; the issue arises as one problem in the relationship between science and public policy. Technology, whether it be artificial hearts or atom bombs, continually outruns both ethical standards and public policy in two ways. The sometimes inconceivable new power of scientific advances that give...
Recently, Fineberg criticized the decision to perform the second-ever artificial heart implant, at Humana Hospital in Kentucky last month, because the procedure is still highly experimental and the hospital's resources could have been used for more established procedures such as valve replacements.
Humana prepared for its first artificial implant with a promotion campaign as elaborate as one that General Motors might use for launching a new model. Before the Schroeder operation, Humana public relations specialists consulted with officials at the University of Utah on the press interest that might be expected. The...
Others, though, say that this position is, well, Hippo-critical. They point out that doctors, as some of the best-paid professionals in America, can hardly contend that they have not profited from medicine. Princeton Economist Uwe Reinhardt, who is participating in a study of for-profit health care, says...