March 21, 2003
Penn Anthropologist Fights Subpoenas for Field Notes in Medical Case
A medical anthropologist who observed the transplant of an artificial heart into a man who died several months later is fighting legal efforts to force her to turn over her field notes, and she says she will go to jail rather than comply.
Sheldon Zink, director of the program for transplant policy and ethics at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics, originally faced a deadline of March 5 to turn over her notes to lawyers in a lawsuit involving the use of the AbioCor
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