Letter: In response to a recent letter by Prior et al.

New technologies are changing our lives radically and quickly. New biotechnologies are moving to commercial uses faster than government regulators or private citizens can monitor. This tension manifests itself in the current debates over xenotransplantation technologies in medicine. The possibility of removing cells, tissues, and organs from animals and transplanting them into human beings is startling and unnerving. Natural immunesystem barriers between species, and even between individuals within a species, are formidable. Typically, transplantation results in violent rejection and death of the grafted organ. But despite the natural barriers to transplantation, xenotransplantation aims specifically to overcome them.In this paper, I will discuss applications of xenograft technology, which raises clinical risks, ethical concerns, and policy issues. I conclude with a set of specific recommendations. As a recent letter to the journal Nature puts it, there is a “split between those who want to get it right, and those who want to get it right now.” No one knows what all the risks, benefits, and unintended consequences of xenotransplantation will be.

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Two Carrier Sensitization as a Spectroscopic Tool for a-Si:H

MRS Proceedings ◽

10.1557/proc-557-439 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 557 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

L.F. Fonseca ◽

S.Z. Weisz ◽

R. Rapaport ◽

I. Balberg

Keyword(s):

Carrier Lifetime ◽

Minority Carrier ◽

Thermal Quenching ◽

Minority Carrier Lifetime ◽

Dangling Bond ◽

Recent Letter ◽

Recombination Centers ◽

Spectroscopic Tool ◽

Hydrogenated Amorphous ◽

Effect Of Light

AbstractIn a recent letter we have reported the first observation of the phenomenon of minority carrier-lifetime sensitization in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H). We find now that combining the study of this phenomenon with the study of the well-known phenomenon of majority carrier lifetime sensitization, in this material, can provide direct information on its density of states (DOS) distribution. This finding is important in view of the limitations associated with other methods designed for the same purpose. We have carried out then an experimental study of the effect of light soaking on the phototransport in a-Si:H. We found that the increase of the dangling bond concentration with light soaking affects the sensitization and thermal quenching of the majority carriers lifetime. Using computer simulations, we further show that the details of the observations associated with the sensitization effect yield semiquantitative information on the concentration and character of the recombination centers in a-Si:H.

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Mrs. Seymour Heeds Emperor Watcher's Plea

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.52.2.312 ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 52 (2) ◽

pp. 312-312

Author(s):

Thomas E. Cone

Keyword(s):

Recent Letter

As Mrs. Seymour's self-appointed American guardian and interpreter of her writings, I consider it my duty to tell Emperor Watcher that, if she were still with us, she would have applauded his recent letter (Pediatrics, 51:753, 1973). Emperor Watcher will also be interested in Mrs. Seymour's advice about children's diets. She wrote: If we look into the Generality of Families, in which there are Children, we shall find them eating ten Times a-day, and drinking all Day long.

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Certification for the Pediatric Nurse Associate

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.53.4.588 ◽

1974 ◽

Vol 53 (4) ◽

pp. 588-588

Author(s):

Louis I. Hochheiser

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Child Health ◽

Nurse Practitioner ◽

Pediatric Care ◽

Child Health Care ◽

Recent Letter ◽

Pediatric Nurse ◽

The Past ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner

The recent letter to Pediatric Nurse Associates and members of the American Academy of Pediatrics reporting the division between the AAP and American Nurses Association on certification, is an unfortunate and deplorable happening. Since the onset of the first Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Program in 1965, more than 1,000 nurses have graduated from over 45 programs adding a new dimension to care for children. Although touted by many as the answer to manpower problems for child health care, evidence over the past five years indicates that a new dimension has been added to pediatric care.

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Father-perpetrators of child sexual abuse who commit suicide

Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s079096670001675x ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 144-145 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Geraldine Walford ◽

Marie-Therese Kennedy ◽

Morna K. C Manwell ◽

Noel McCune

Keyword(s):

Sexual Abuse ◽

Child Sexual Abuse ◽

Sexually Abused ◽

Attempted Suicide ◽

Suicide Attempts ◽

Recent Letter ◽

The Family ◽

Sex Offences ◽

The Guardian ◽

The Impact

Two cases of fathers who committed suicide following the revelation that they had sexually abused their own or other children, are described. The importance of being alert to the possibility of suicide and suicidal acts by family members following a disclosure, is emphasised. Improved liaison and co-ordination between agencies working with these families may enable vulnerable cases to be more readily identified and consequently offered appropriate support and treatment.The revelation that the father in a family has sexually abused his own or other children often precipitates a crisis within the family. The distress suffered by the children themselves and by their mothers is well documented. (Browne and Finkelhor, Hildebrand and Forbes). Goodwin reported suicide attempts in 11 of 201 families, in which sexual abuse had been confirmed. Eight of the attempts were made by daughter-victims. In three of the five cases of mothers who attempted suicide, the abuse was intrafamilial. The impact on father perpetrators, previously a less well researched field, has been receiving more attention of late. Maisch, in a sample of 63 fathers convicted of incest reported that two fathers subsequently committed suicide. Wild has reported on six cases of suicide and three of attempted suicide by perpetrators following disclosure of child sexual abuse. The Cleveland Inquiry Report mentions one father, charged with several sex offences, who committed suicide while awaiting trial. A recent letter to The Guardian newspaper (18th February 1989) by 11 local paediatricians in that area suggests that there are now two such cases of suicide committed by alleged perpetrators.

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A comment on star-ordering and tail-ordering

Advances in Applied Probability ◽

10.2307/1427296 ◽

1984 ◽

Vol 16 (3) ◽

pp. 692-692 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Y. S. Sathe

Keyword(s):

Recent Letter

In a recent letter, Deshpande and Kochar (1983) gave the following theorem.

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Is Presence Always Complicity? An Analysis of Presence, Its Moral Objects, and Scandal in Proximity to Physician-Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia

Theological Studies ◽

10.1177/00405639211032707 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 82 (3) ◽

pp. 487-508

Author(s):

Daniel Fleming

Keyword(s):

End Of Life ◽

End Of Life Care ◽

Assisted Suicide ◽

Moral Action ◽

Theological Ethics ◽

Life Care ◽

Physician Assisted Suicide ◽

Recent Letter ◽

Action Intention ◽

Catholic Theological

Catholic chaplains and clinicians who exercise their vocations in contexts wherein physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia (PAS-E) are legal may need to confront the difficult question of whether or not their presence in proximity to these acts and the processes that govern them is consistent with Catholic ethics. Debate on this question to date has focused on complicit presence and scandal. Drawing on Catholic theological ethics and the vision for end-of-life care espoused in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s recent letter, Samaritanus Bonus, I argue that some forms of presence in proximity to PAS-E are ethically justifiable. Core to this argument are the three elements of moral action: intention, object, and circumstance, alongside efforts to mitigate the risk of scandal informed by the teaching of Aquinas.

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Mood-Altering Drugs and Hyperkinetic Children

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.49.2.308 ◽

1972 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

pp. 308-309

Author(s):

Gerald Erenberg

Keyword(s):

Behavior Problems ◽

Brain Dysfunction ◽

Initial Problem ◽

School Behavior ◽

Minimal Brain Dysfunction ◽

Recent Letter ◽

Hyperactive Behavior ◽

Organic Process ◽

Pediatric Neurologist ◽

Prescribing Medication

Dr. Ralph Olsen's recent letter to the Editor,1 questioning the validity of prescribing medication for all children with school behavior problems, is more acceptable to me than the opinions stated in the response of Dr. L. Eugene Arnold.2 As a pediatric neurologist, I have first-hand knowledge of the frequency with which this request is made and have had many opportunities to evaluate the results of pharmacotherapy. The initial problem is that of identifying the child whose hyperactive behavior is due to minimal brain dysfunction (by definition an "organic" process).

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Hazards of Baby Powder

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.78.3.546 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 78 (3) ◽

pp. 546-547

Author(s):

HOWARD C. MOFENSON ◽

THOMAS R. CARACCIO ◽

SHARON OKUN ◽

JOSEPH GREENSHER

Keyword(s):

American Academy ◽

Medical Community ◽

Progressive Decrease ◽

Recent Letter ◽

Data Table ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

Letter To The Editor ◽

Community Population ◽

Ventilator Therapy

To the Editor.— In a recent letter to the editor, Cotton and Davidson1 have brought the hazards of baby powder aspiration to the attention of the medical community. We have been monitoring episodes of possible powder inhalation and ingestion in our community (population 3 million) since 1980, when two infants were hospitalized [See table in the PDF file] for powder aspiration and one required ventilator therapy for two days. Our recent data (Table) shows a progressive decrease in the number of possible inhalations and ingestion episodes since 1981 when our article2 was published in Pediatrics and the American Academy of Pediatrics publicized the hazard of baby powder.

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Ascendency of the Black Bottle (Activated Charcoal)

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.80.6.949 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 80 (6) ◽

pp. 949-951

Author(s):

JOSEPH GREENSHER ◽

HOWARD C. MOFENSON ◽

THOMAS R. CARACCIO

Keyword(s):

American Academy ◽

Emergency Room ◽

Activated Charcoal ◽

Poison Control ◽

Poison Control Centers ◽

Recent Letter ◽

American Academy Of Pediatrics ◽

Primary Means ◽

Significant Change ◽

Gastrointestinal Decontamination

Previous well-established guidelines for the management of poisonous ingestions in children are undergoing significant change. The time-honored practice of syrup of ipecac-induced vomiting as the primary means of gastrointestinal decontamination now frequently yields to the administration of activated charcoal. Practitioners and emergency room physicians who are increasingly relying on advice from and participation in treatment by regional poison control centers need to understand the rationale behind what many consider contradictions to accepted teaching. A case in point was a recent letter to the American Academy of Pediatrics from a pediatrician questioning the treatment of an ingestion of poison in a toddler.

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