Faculty Bibliography

Arthur Caplan comments that although nonsmokers should not have to endure the byproducts of other people's vice, it does not seem fair to tell those who have smoked for 40 years or more, or those whose only pleasure while residing in an institution is a smoke, to go stand in the cold

The Jarvik heart brought international fame to its inventor, Robert Jarvik; to William DeVries, the surgeon who first placed it into a human being; and to such patients as Barney Clark, Jack Burcham and Murray Haydon, who received it as a permanent replacement for their own failing hearts. The device also put the Humana Corp. on the map when its president lured DeVries to the hospital chain's flagship hospital in Louisville, Ky., with the promise that the for-profit corporation would pay for 100 implants

[Myrna] likes to read, to argue about politics, to receive visits from her many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and to watch her favorite soap operas on TV. But she has a hard time doing any of these things because her roommate in the nursing home is demented. Myrna's roommate has Alzheimer's disease