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Foreword

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2021

David F. Noonan
David F. Noonan*
Affiliation:
Catholic Chaplain, Framingham State College
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American Journal of Law & Medicine , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , Summer 1976 , pp. i - iii
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics and Boston University 1976

References

1 M. Harrington, The Accidental Century.

2 Whitlow, , Extreme Measures to Prolong Life, 202 J.A.M.A. (1967)CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed. Reverend Richard McCormack has argued intensely and persuasively that restorative efforts should not be directed soley to restoration of biological life, but to life characterized by meaningful relationships. Father McCormack expressed this opinion as follows:

One who must support his life with disproportionate effort focuses the time, attention, energy, and resources of himself and others not precisely on relationships, but on maintaining the condition of relationships. Such concentration easily becomes overconcentration and distorts one’s view of, and weakens one's pursuit of, the very relational goals that define our growth and flourishing. The importance of relationships gets lost in the struggle for survival.