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The new willingness of women to consult women professionals?often their insistence on it?extends to doctors, notably gynecologists. Women make up a remarkable 80% of the work force in the nation's health services, but overwhelmingly, they are nurses and technicians?helpers rather than leaders. Only 9% of physicians...
Dr. John K. Lattimer, chairman of the department of urology at Columbia University medical school, has examined the autopsy material, analyzed the Zapruder film and, with his two sons, has fired some 600 rounds of ammunition with rifles identical to Oswald's. He notes that as a seated person...
The play is full of gallows humor. In one scene, straight out of the theater of the absurd, Hingle, raging over his daughter's abortive life, tries to throttle a cadaver in front of the relatives of the dead man.
Moral Absolutes. Jumpers begins at a surreal party. A girl swings back and forth over the stage as she performs a denture-defying striptease. Some lemon-clad gymnasts, called Jumpers, do flips and build pyramids. A shot flings one Jumper out of his pyramid. It seems to be a gag...
There is no shortage of corpses--2 million Americans die annually--and when a 1968 Gallup Poll asked respondents if they would be willing to donate all or part of themselves to medical science, 70 per cent said they would. This generosity is rarely translated into legal steps, however, as...