Posted on October 5, 2008 by Scott Carson
An article in The Economist describes the worries of bioethicists about what we might call the problem of deadly demarcation: the fact that vicissitudes in medical definitions of death appear to be subject to the growing trend of organ harvesting. In 1968 a committee at the Harvard Medical School recommended extinction of brain activity as [...]
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Posted on September 14, 2008 by Scott Carson
In the spring of 1974 I was in a tenth grade chemistry class that involved a little more math than I was comfortable with (i.e., an amount greater than zero). As I was browsing in the bookstore of the local university one day I saw that they had hand-held calculators for sale, and I decided [...]
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