Autonomy and Coercion: Moral Values in Medical Practice

In his article, Fr. McCormick underscores the dangers of isolating a right from the environment in which it is exercised and from other, possibly superseding, rights. He then goes on to a discussion of the physician So right to autonomy in its full context

Not What Catholic Hospitals Ordered

Father McCormick sees the revised hospital code as not what the doctor ordered and in this article lays his case primarily against the code\u27s Preamble

Development of a polysilicon process based on chemical vapor deposition, phase 1

The development of a dichlorosilane-based reductive chemical vapor deposition process for the production of polycrystalline silicon is discussed. Experimental data indicate that the ease of ignition and explosion severity of dichlorosilane (DCS)/air mixtures is substantially attenuated if the DCS is diluted with hydrogen. Redesign of the process development unit to accommodate safety related information is described. Several different sources of trichlorosilane were used to generate a mixture of redistributed chlorosilanes via Dowex ion exchange resin. The unseparated mixtures were then fed to an experimental reactor in which silicon was deposited and the deposited silicon analyzed for electrically active impurities. At least one trichlorosilane source provided material of requisite purity. Silicon grown in the experimental reactor was converted to single crystal material and solar cells fabricated and tested