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Termination of Life-Sustaining Treatment and
the Care of the Dying (Hastings Center, 1987,
pages 24-25).
17. The delegates were unanimous in their feeling
that this section should be regarded more as a
statement in process than a final document. Some
felt that for that reason it would have been better
to withhold it from initial publication of these
guidelines. The majority, however, felt that this
version accurately represents the directions that
our final deliberations will most likely take us and
in any case will be provocative of important
discussion of these issues and should not,
therefore, be withheld from publication at this
time.
18. Cf., Securing Access to Health Care: A
Report on the Ethical Differences in the Quality
of Health Services, Vol. I, President’s
Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in
Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral
Research: Supt. of Docs., U.S.G.P.O.,
Washington, D.C., 1983, Ch. 1, pp. 18-46.
Table I. Guideline working groups.
Part I. Competent or Once Competent with Advance
Directive
Pieter Admiraal, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S.M., The Nether-
lands
Gunnar Dahlström, M.D., Sweden
John Dawson, M.B., B.S., L.M.S.S.A., D.A.,
M.R.C.G.P., England
Raanan Gillon, B.A., M.B., B.S., F.R.C.P., England
George Robertson, M.D., F.F.A.R.C.S., Scotland
Davied Schiedermayer, M.D., United States
Susan Wolf, J.D., United States
Stuart Youngner, M.D., United States
Part II. Once Competent, Now Not Competent, but
Without Advance Directive
Ronald Cranford, M.D., United States
Nancy Dickey, M.D., United States
Heleen Dupuis, Ph.D., The Netherlands
Grant Gillett, M.B., Ch.B., D.Phil., F.R.A.C.S., New
Zealand
Joanne Lynn, M.D., M.A., United States
Terrence Meece, M.D., United States
Arnold Rosin, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.P., Israel
James Snyder, M.D., United States
Cees van der Meer, M.D., The Netherlands
Part III. Never Competent, Neonates
Howard Brody, M.D., United States
A.G.M. Campbell, M.B., F.R.C.P., Scotland
Nancy Homburg, M.D., United States
Dale Anne Singer, M.D., United States
John M. Stanley, Ph.D., United States
Avraham Steinberg, M.D., Israel
Margaret Wallace, R.N., LL.B., Australia
Part IV. Scarcity
Fredrick Abrams, M.D., United States
Clark Boren, M.D., United States
Merton Finkler, Ph.D., United States
Shimon Glick, M.D., Israel
John Mielke, M.D., United States
Thomas Murray, Ph.D., United States
John Paris, S.J., Ph.D., Ph.L., United States
Povl Riis, M.D., Denmark
Knut Erik Tranoy, Ph.D., M.A., Norway