Word: glasser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heaviest casualties of the Viet Nam War was trust in institutions, in experts, in majorities and consensus. That deep-dyed skepticism, born in the great credibility gaps of the war and Watergate, is one of the most profoundly significant effects of Viet Nam. Says Dr. Ronald Glasser, a Minneapolis physician who, after his Army service, wrote 365 Days, one of the finest evocations of the war: "The present inflation, Watergate, our lack of belief in expertise, our confusion, all of these things came out of that war. When someone tells me a nuclear power plant has six back-up systems...
...charges, thinks the seller of child porn is a suitable target: "It is totally unrealistic to say that the people who sell these magazines and films are not involved in the act themselves." Yet other lawyers consider a broad child-abuse law a form of backdoor censorship. Says Ira Glasser of the New York Civil Liberties Union: "I assume if you put your mind to it, you could come up with an acceptable statute prohibiting adults from using children in explicit sex films and photos, but controlling what people see or read is another matter. Everything published ought...
...background of Dr. Ronald Glasser's chronicle of hospital life are other children with fatal, costly chronic diseases, like the four-year-old boy plagued by unsuccessful kidney transplants. Mary's father stirs up a campaign of timid, deferential parents against the doctors, who never explain...
...Glasser is a pediatric specialist at Hennepin County General Hospital in Minneapolis. He composed this book, a kind of fictionalized nonfiction, out of events he has seen and others he has "heard of." Despite the author's evident concern for the unnecessary torture of children, in some ways this is a misleading effort. Glasser plays on the reader's response to suffering, as he did in 365 Days, his antiwar narrative about G.I.s mutilated in Viet...
...Ward 402, Glasser's cause is not really euthanasia as such but a fashionable skepticism about progress in general. By focusing on chronic diseases, the book mixes up the anguished, specific personal dilemma of the hopelessly ill and their families with a general social crisis in American medicine. There are hard decisions to be made (TIME, July 16) about when a patient really ceases to live though he is technically still alive, as well as about staggering costs, medical needs and, indeed, the requirements of pure humanity. Such subjects, though, demand either a straightforward, rigorous, get-the-whole-story...