A Matter of Life and Death
Great, developments in surgery and tissue-typing make possible the transplantation of most vital organs, but with this ability to prolong life come serious problems. The scientific advances 2nd the ethical questions they raise are here examined by a professor of pathology at U.C.L.A. and a leading authority in the tissue-classification method. Dr. Walford, a sometime poet and gambler, is an adviser to the National Institutes of Health in transplantation and immunology.