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There are two other rather important prerequisites. The first is that the risk to the patient be negligible and that it not impede his progress if he is under treatment for an ailment. If that progress can be accelerated by another means, then the experimenter should not try a dubious treatment. Second, the subject must provide informed consent to participate in any experiment...
Died. Lauritz Melchior, 82, golden-voiced Wagnerian tenor of New York's Metropolitan Opera for 24 seasons; of a liver ailment; in Santa Monica, Calif. (see Music...
...Tastefully dressed in a pale green turtleneck, matching jacket and slacks, Taoka, who is recuperating from a heart ailment, played the solicitous host to perfection. He offered his caller a delectable piece of green melon and then launched into a professorial discourse on social ills. Many of his followers, he said, were low-caste buraku-min (TIME. Jan. 8), social misfits who had suffered from discrimination. Since the government offered no help for them. Taoka had taken on the responsibility. 'What I need now,' he declared, 'is the services of some scholars in finding ways and means...
...helpful for a condition known as hyperkinesis, a restlessness that some experts believe derives from minimal brain damage or chemical imbalances. But what distresses parents and physicians alike is that it is far too easy for a teacher to mistake normal childhood restlessness for hyperkinesis or some other ailment requiring treatment by drugs.* An alarming number of unsophisticated teachers seem to be doing just that. For this small group, drugs are the panacea for all behavior problems. In Berkeley, one teacher recommended drug therapy for nine of her 28 pupils because their spirited behavior convinced her that they were brain...
...Beethoven sonata, the audience is aware of a text behind the sound, a text which is approached, deformed, illuminated. The significance of the music as performed starts from this tension. The physical sign of this tension is stage fright." Like epilepsy, he says, "stage fright is a divine ailment, a sacred madness...