From DAVID SHAPIRO
Could I add one significant point to your helpful account of the Nuffield
Foundation’s plans for a Council on Bioethics? I omitted doctors from my
list of professions that were consulted. The foundation’s consultations
did, of course, include the major medical bodies; for example, the Conference
of the Medical Royal Colleges invited the chairman of the Nuffield Trustees
to give a presentation. We also received constructive and critical comments
on the proposals from the British Medical Association, the General Medical
Council and from the Medical Research Council. Our present proposals have
been revised in the light of these and other comments.
David Shapiro Nuffield Foundation London
