The hegemonic narratives situate the first committees historically as emerging in the 1960s; they frequently refer to the “God squad” , p.238, a hospital committee in the United States responsible for deciding which patients would be referred for the new renal dialysis treatment and which would not and would therefore die.
Las narrativas hegemónicas ubican históricamente a los primeros comités en la década de 1960, con la referencia frecuente al “escuadrón de Dios” , p.238, el comité de un hospital de EEUU que debía decidir qué pacientes recurrirían al novedoso tratamiento de diálisis renal y quienes no y, por lo tanto, morir.