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...number of problems exist with the current proposal, most particularly in the way it penalizes students who want to experiment by taking five courses in a semester or by taking a course in an entirely novel field. The College must determine a way to give experimenters room to screw up in a course without ruining their chances for honors--perhaps, as Professor of Astrophysics David I ayzer suggests, by making only three-fourths of all courses count for honors...
Readers who are perplexed by this quiz can thank the stars if they are no longer in school. For these samples come from standard texts and other reading used by millions of American youngsters in elementary and secondary grades. Bonnie Armbruster, a researcher at the University of Illinois Center for...
Doctors like to imagine that the therapeutic imperative and the experimental imperative are one and the same. On the contrary. They are almost always in conflict. At the extreme are the notorious cases in which the patient is actually sacrificed on the altar of science: the Tuskegee experiment, in which a group of black men with syphilis were deliberately left untreated for 40 years; the Willowbrook experiment, in which retarded children were injected with hepatitis virus; and the Brooklyn study in which elderly patients were injected with live cancer cells. Loma Linda was at the other extreme. Here, far from...
But not if it volunteers, and thus, in effect, joins the research enterprise. Consent is the crucial event in the transition from therapy to experiment. It turns what would otherwise be technological barbarism into humane science. Consent suspends the Hippocratic injunction "First, do no harm." Moreover, it redeems not only...
No. Baby Fae was a means, a conscripted means, to a noble end. This experiment was undertaken to reduce not her suffering, but, perhaps some day, that of others. But is that really wrong? Don't the suffering babies of the future have any claim on us? How do...