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In his recent article in Technology Review, Fineberg discusses one of the most important and difficult issues facing the medical profession and the public today: how to balance the possibilities new technologies present for saving lives with the need to contain costs and the realities of drastically limited resources.
The dean proposes a number of suggestions for those both within and outside the medical profession, aimed at forcing all groups to rethink their priorities as individuals in a responsible society. To counter the drastically low rate of organ donation, one of the most serious constraints on transplants, he suggests...
The Minimal Self, Christopher Lasch's book of all-over-the-page analysis and erudite grumbling, represents one such discrepancy. A sociologist by profession. Lasch made his reputation several years ago with The Culture of Narcissism. In that book as in this, he tries to explain modern life by generalizing...
"Reagan has to keep his eye on Senate confirmations," says Associate Professor of Government Harry N. Hirsch. "He will try to appoint people like Justice O'Connor who, though conservative, would not be out on a limb and are respected in the legal profession."
In addition, he says that if the medical profession devoted more of its time to reforming the system for donor organs from humans (increasing the number who pledge their organs upon death) then the need to kill animals would be minimized.