The Marital and Physician Privileges—A Reprint of a Letter to a Congressman

I am much disturbed by the treatment given to privilege, inMoore and Bendix, Congress, Evidence and Rulemaking. 1 My disturbancecenters mainly on their treatment of the marital and physicianprivileges

The Marital and Physician Privileges—A Reprint of a Letter to a Congressman

A design of computer systems, that effectively supports the user, is a major goal within human-computer interaction. To achieve this, we must understand and master several tasks. These tasks concern firstly what to develop and secondly how to develop the system. The design and implementation of effective and efficient user interfaces is a prerequisite for the successful introduction of computer support in the medical domain. We base our work on a fundamental understanding of cognitive aspects of human-computer interaction, as well as on detailed analysis of the specific needs and requirements of the end users, i.e., the medical professionals. This thesis presents several approaches for development of systems for computer-supported work in health care. The solutions described concern vital problem areas: (1) the focus on the work tasks to be performed, (2) the cost of software and the way competition works in a networked world. Solutions to these problems can lead to more usable systems from a user's perspective but may also change the nature of computer applications

Community Clinical Pastoral Training -- A Success for Ecumenism in Shreveport

A review of the seven years\u27 activity of the Shreveport Medical Society\u27s committee of Medicine & Religion which lead to the formation of the Clinical Pastoral Training Program, is presented by the co-chairmen of the committee

The Crisis in Capital Punishment

We are at crisis. For about four years, because of judicial staysnecessary to the orderly administration of justice, no human beinghas been killed by warrant of law in the United States. We have hadmuch time- for. thought on the subject. If we resume the infliction ofdeath by law, we shall have to answer to ourselves, to the future,to the rest of the world, and to whatever or whomever else it maybe that judges us, how it came about that we did this after so muchtime for reflection. Meanwhile, some 600 persons have been condemnedto die, and are in the death cells of our capital punishmentstates. Of course, not all these will be killed, in any event, for it isthe policy in some states to delay clemency hearings until all judicialremedies are exhausted. and some of those now under condemnationwill be commuted, or be transferred to asylums, or die. But if theprotection of the judicial stays be removed, and if no other remedysupervene, it is reasonably certain that within a year a good manytimes as many people will be killed in the name of law as in any yearin recent American history. Although I am aware that much, indeedmost, of what I shall have to say cannot be new, and although I knowmy subject is a most unpleasant one, I dare not put myself in theposition of having to explain to my children how it happened thatat such a crisis I could find myself honored by being tendered aplatform such as this, at a great university such as this, and thennot use this opportunity to have my say on this subject.

Toward a Judicial Role for the Twenty-First Century

Tonight, I am shifting to a new perspective in time. I would ask you to think of us as standing at a midpoint, just about equally distant from the decision in Brown v. Board of Education and the beginning of a new century, some twenty-three years back and forward. I remember the day the Brown case was decided; I learned of it, on a May afternoon still fragrant, from a group of Columbia law students in the drugstore-luncheonette on the corner of 116th Street and Broadway in New York. If you remember that day, or some other day in that year, as freshly as I do-—as freshly as if it were yesterday—then you will, with me, perceive the twenty-three years left in this century as a pretty short time. To those of you who cannot remember the day or year of the Brown decision—those of you who are the best hope of that new century—I have to say, with a sadness softened by the knowledge that you will not quite believe me, that it will come sooner than you can now conceive possible. It is not too early to begin thinking about the role of the courts—and especially of the Supreme Court—in that century. For that role—and I speak here again chiefly to the young, or at least to the younger than I—will be determined in great part by the planning, the advocacy, the views of propriety and professional rightness, which you choose to espouse and put forward

Due Process for Death: Jurek v. Texas and Companion Cases

This article was delivered as the Twelfth Annual Pop John XXIII Lecture on October 22, 1976, at the Catholic University of America

Admiralty Jurisdiction: Critique and Suggestions

When a new city plan is put into effect, ancient land-marks are likelyto come in for rough treatment. This is sometimes a matter of necessaryclearance of right of way, and sometimes merely one of conforming an antiquated style of architecture more nearly to a newer type. In the 1948 revision of the Judicial Code, the latter is the motive most likely to have beenat work in bringing about the rewording of the phrase saving . . . [the]common law remedy to maritime suitors. To that time-honored language(coeval with the federal judiciary itself), the doctrines and practices allocatingjurisdiction, as between state and federal courts, in matters maritime, havebeen in effect a gloss. Whether the revised phraseology, ( saving . . . anyother remedy . . . ) really means or can be taken to mean the same as theolder formula is a matter of some question