The play makes uncomfortable viewing and it’s hard not to wring your hands with the benefit of hindsight as you see the Shoah looming all too clearly. But at the same time it is fascinating to realise that Schnitzler was not prescient – he was rather, in tune with the climate of his times and a writer capable of dramatising it with lively and supremely intelligent clarity.
At the same time, as the world has been watching Pope John Paul II receiving the last rites and we have been taking sides over the ‘right’ to live or die of the unfortunate Terri Schiavo in America, the play has an extraordinary immediacy too.
Professor Bernhardi :The Dreyfus of Vienna
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SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 2006--The Center for Women Policy Studies and the Women's Bioethics Project (WBP) today announced the formation of the first-ever State Legislative Advisory Board on Women and Bioethics. The bipartisan 15-member board is made up of progressive state legislative leaders from around the country. The first meeting of the newly formed board will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) on Monday, Aug. 14, 2006, 3-5 p.m. at the Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center in Nashville, Tenn. The meeting is open to the public.
The advisory board meeting will feature a presentation by Dr. Robin N. Fiore, who is the Adelaide R. Snyder Professor of Ethics at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Fiore's presentation will cover a full range of bioethics issues ranging from end-of-life issues and the effect of the Terry Schiavo case to stem cell research and its impact on women's reproductive rights and health. Following the presentation, the legislative leaders attending the meeting will assist the Center for Women Policy Studies and the WBP in planning a Bioethics Seminar for Women State Legislative Leaders, which will take place in 2007.
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Ye gods, yes. I just love to pay good money to be tormented.