Willard Gaylin
Biographic Data
| ID | 212500 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Willard Gaylin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Willard |
| FAMILY NAME | Gaylin |
| SIGNATURE | GAYLIN W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hastings Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 42 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How Long a Life Is Enough Life
Humans have long been troubled by the prospect of old age and its culmination in death. Whether to rebel against or accept this fate have been wrestled with down through the centuries. But new medical technologies and the growing science of aging have sided with rebellion. We know that aging can be pushed back and improved in its quality. That progress is well under way, but now intensified by many scientists and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. In …
Perspective: Nondirective Counseling or Advice?: Psychotherapy as Value Laden
Worshiping Autonomy
Case Study: The Second-Hand Suicide Threat
Semantic Health and a Community Preventive Medicine Program
At the Center
Knowing Good and Doing Good
The degree to which knowing good results in doing good can only be\nunderstood within the complex and conflicting currents operating within the\nconfusing field of human motivation. The power of knowledge to inform behavior\nwill be greatly influenced by whether that knowledge is sown on the soil of a\ngood conscience. The bad news is that good conscience is set in the first few\nyears of life; the good news is that in the areas from which bioeth…
How Come
Fooling with Mother Nature
Gaylin's cautionary essay discusses the dangers of using modern\ntechnologies to condition and modify human behavior. While arguing that the\nrisks of high technology are overstated and the dangers of low technology\ndevelopments often are overlooked, Gaylin warns against approaches to\ncontrolling behavior that reduce heterogeneity and freedom. He sees the\nmutability of human nature, our freedom from "instinctual fixation," as one of\nthe most …
Case Studies: Nazi Data: Dissociation from Evil
This case study and three commentaries involve a contemporary researcher pondering the moral implications of using Nazi experimental data related to his work. How should Nazi data be regarded? Is it tainted information, or morally neutral? Should researchers today treat this data differently than more conventionally gathered information? Mark Sheldon and William Whitely cite Kristine Moe's four conditions that, if met, may justify the use of Nazi…
Case Studies: The Heart of the Matter
Looking Towards the Center's 20th Anniversary Announcing a Change
At the Center
In Memoriam
Feeling Good and Doing Better: Ethics and Nontherapeutic Drug Use
In Defense of the Dignity of Being Human
The concept of human dignity is examined in terms of the religious\nbelief that man is created in God's image and from the Kantian viewpoint that\nman's autonomy gives special value to our species. The theory of psychic\ndeterminism and the prospect of genetic engineering of humans are seen as\nattacks on self determination. Five additional attributes that make humans\n"special" are explored: conceptual thought, the capacity for technology, our\n…
Introduction: Autonomy, Paternalism, and Community
A Capital Campaign: An Open letter
Violence and the Politics of Research
Feeling Good, Doing Better, but Using Drugs
In Defense of a Child's Right to Assent
The Competence of Children: No Longer All or None
A fixed age of competence at 18 or 21 has been made obsolete by court\ndecisions and new biomedical technologies such as safer abortion procedures. \nGaylin discusses the concept of "variable" competence in the context of minors\nand decision making in medical care or clinical trials, where a child's\nautonomy is dependent on the amount of risk or gain involved, social benefits\nand costs, and the nature of the decision itself. (KIE abstract)
Special Supplement: The XYY Controversy: Researching Violence and Genetics
William J. Mellman
Case Studies in Bioethics: Refusing an Amputation: Who Should Pay for the Extra Care
Case 572 Otis Simmons, a fifty-eightyear-old derelict, walked barefoot in bitter cold through the streets of Manhattan shortly before Christmas, in order to reach Roosevelt Hospital. froze, he said later. sat in one place 15 hours. After he was hospitalized, he developed gangrene in his badly frostbitten feet. The doctors wanted to amputate the infected portions, noting that otherwise the condition could become life-threatening. Simmons refused t…
Psychoanalysis and Social Research: The Psychoanalytic Study of the Non-Patient
In the service of their country: War Resisters in Prison
What's an FBI Poster Doing in a Nice Journal like That
Ihe by WILLARD GAYLIN he pages of the Archives of Dermatology, with their full-color pictures of exotic skin diseases, are likely to strike the uninformed eye as bizarre and somewhat repellent. But even the best informed must have been startled by page 308 of the February 1972 issue. There, occupying almost the entire page, was an FBI wanted poster! Appearing under the department heading, News and Notes, the item looked identical to those appeari…
Physical Manipulation of the Brain
Henry K. Beecher, Edgar A. Bering, Jr., Donald T. Chalkley, José M. R. Delgado, Vernon H. Mark, Karl H. Pribram, Gardner C. Quarton, Theodore B. Rasmussen, William Beecher Scoville, William H. Sweet, Daniel Callahan, K. Danner Clouser, Harold Edgar, Rudolph Ehrensing, James R. Gavin, III, Willard Gaylin, Bruce Hilton, Perry London, Robert Michels, Robert Neville, Ann Orlov, Herbert G. Vaughan, Jr., Paul Weiss, Physical Manipulation of the Brain, …
Case Studies in Bioethics: The Psychiatrist as Double Agent
Scientific Research and Public Regulation
I f it is true that heaven has no rage like love to turned, the scientific community may be in for some real trouble. The infatuation with technology that blossomed in the nineteenth century and flourished in the twentieth, while not yet at the hatred phase, is surely in a period of wary withdrawal. We are witnessing the distrust that presages disaffection-the petulance that precedes anger. It is a dangerous development, for that love affair was …
Partial Justice: A Study of Bias in Sentencing
Obituary
From Twain to Freud: An Examination of Conscience
M ark Twain, that great student of conscience, dramatized in a particularly illuminating episode our ambiguities in the face of our better selves. It is a scene that traditionally evokes a sense of delight over the sweet rightness of things, a scene that has been played out weekly in movies and hourly on television. The forces of evil are conquered, the bad are subdued, the good triumph, and virtuous order is restored. Yet Huck
Case Studies in Bioethics: Sterilizing the Retarded Child
Special Supplement: MBD, Drug Research and the Schools
Daniel Callahan, Leslie Dach, Harold Edgar, Willard Gaylin, Gerald Klerman, Ruth Macklin, Robert Michels, Robert C. Neville, David Rothman, Margaret Steinfels, Judith P. Swazey, George J. Annas, Larry Brown, Albert DiMascio, Daniel X. Freedman, George Hein, Hubert Jones, Melvin H. King, Ronald Lipman, Sheila Rothman, Robert L. Sprague, Special Supplement: MBD, Drug Research and the Schools, The Hastings Center Report, Vol. 6, No. 3 (Jun., 1976), …
Putting It Back Where It Belongs
from the peculiar distortion inherent in personal insight It may seem so compelling as to have some claim to public recognition. Believe me, this is rarely the case. It, like the newborn infant, holds an idiosyncratic attractiveness to its parents that is rarely shared by others. Further be advised: that Out in which you are choosing to let It hang is mine as well as yours! Whether It be the private parts of the exhibitionist or the private life …
Will The Real Adolf Hitler Please Stand up
Sterilization of the Retarded: In Whose Interest
Doing Good: The Limits of Benevolence
Vegetalotry
Feelings: Our Vital Signs
Special Supplement: The XYY Controversy: Researching Violence and Genetics
William J. Mellman
Case Studies in Bioethics: Refusing an Amputation: Who Should Pay for the Extra Care
Case 572 Otis Simmons, a fifty-eightyear-old derelict, walked barefoot in bitter cold through the streets of Manhattan shortly before Christmas, in order to reach Roosevelt Hospital. froze, he said later. sat in one place 15 hours. After he was hospitalized, he developed gangrene in his badly frostbitten feet. The doctors wanted to amputate the infected portions, noting that otherwise the condition could become life-threatening. Simmons refused t…
In Defense of a Child's Right to Assent
The Competence of Children: No Longer All or None
A fixed age of competence at 18 or 21 has been made obsolete by court\ndecisions and new biomedical technologies such as safer abortion procedures. \nGaylin discusses the concept of "variable" competence in the context of minors\nand decision making in medical care or clinical trials, where a child's\nautonomy is dependent on the amount of risk or gain involved, social benefits\nand costs, and the nature of the decision itself. (KIE abstract)
Feeling Good, Doing Better, but Using Drugs
In Defense of the Dignity of Being Human
The concept of human dignity is examined in terms of the religious\nbelief that man is created in God's image and from the Kantian viewpoint that\nman's autonomy gives special value to our species. The theory of psychic\ndeterminism and the prospect of genetic engineering of humans are seen as\nattacks on self determination. Five additional attributes that make humans\n"special" are explored: conceptual thought, the capacity for technology, our\n…
Introduction: Autonomy, Paternalism, and Community
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