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And what of experimentation with human subjects? The issue has become a heated one in light of the recently disclosed Tuskegee syphillitic study. This and the aforementioned economic questions illuminate issues of more general social consequences than those in the strictly medical arena. Amidst legitimate charges of the abuse of...
I have only presented in capsulated from some of the issue of contemporary medical ethics. Although our biases in the following pages will inevitably be transparent, we attempt only to enlighten our readers to the issues. For clearly all of society must now contend with these problems. We cannot give...
Medical authorities often testify as "expert witnesses" for either the prosecution or the defense, but only occasionally do doctors themselves become the center of the court's attention. Last month, however, one of the newest techniques in the medical profession went on trial in Detroit, as a parade of medical...
When the three-member court sits down in late May to thrash out the legal and medical complexities of psychosurgery, it will convene without Mr. L. But the medical profession itself will remain on trial in the somewhat eerie backdrop of a Detroit courtroom
On the other side of the issue are the doctors and scientists who say that the test is accurate enough and that the child's low IQ will make him or her a burden on the parents and on the society. Very often in actual cases the request for abortion...