Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Petri is an ostomate, one of a million Americans who has had their large intestine or bladder removed because of cancer or disease. An artificial opening is made through the abdomen for removal of body waste which is collected by a plastic appliance...
...ever seen a cervix or watched a suction abortion being performed. Taking Our Bodies Back, produced by Cambridge Documentary Films, demystifies such gynocologia as it raises issues in women's health care which have largely gone unnoticed by women themselves. The discussion ranges from home birth and midwifery to cancer, birth and midwifery to cancer, birth control, hormone drugs, and abortion; even women who thought they knew all about this will be surprised at what they don't know...
...says Producer-Director Michael Roemer in summary of the stern message of Dying, his searing 97-minute television documentary made for Boston's WGBH, to be aired this Thursday on PBS channels across the country. It is an intimate portrait of how three cancer patients who know they are going to die contend with this reality to the very end. Dying is a camera probe into forbidden reaches of our fears...
First comes Sally. "Oh, Mama, it's good to be home," she tells her elderly mother. With her withering limbs and head covered by fine gray stubble, Sally, 46, appears ancient. When she turns to peer out the window, her skull bears the surgical dent that is brain cancer's trophy. "It's just like when you look at a little baby," she says. "Someday that baby will be an old man or an old woman if they live long enough. And so, I have no fear of death." Sally may not, but hers is a Yankee...
...elected professors are Alastair G.W. Cameron, professor of Astronomy; Karl Wolfgang Deutsch, Stanfield Professor of International Peace; John E. Dowling '57, professor of Biology; and Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology...