Word: clinical
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both campuses found the genial six-footer an easy but able boss, with a knack for getting along with both professors and legislators. At Delaware, he awarded the university's first Ph.D., admitted its first Negro student. He set up a new department of biological sciences, a speech clinic, a psychological services center for veterans. In 1950, when his daughter's health demanded a change of climate, he accepted the top job at Vermont. There, he had scarcely hit his stride when the call came from New York...
Depression Years. That was in 1927. This week Dr. Starke, 52, a veteran of 24 years' practice in Sanford (pop. 11,700), opened a new $50,000 clinic (about half the cost came from his savings, the rest from a bank loan). Meantime, he had established a solid record of helping his race, and some white folks too. During the depressed 19305, Dr. Starke formed a team with Seminole County's overworked public-health nurse, Mrs. Frances McDougal. Together they toured the county, treating hookworm and giving inoculations. Though he never offered his services to whites ("I didn...
...living knows more about children and how they grow than Arnold Lucius Gesell. Unlike Freud, who reconstructed the child's development from the moldering memories of neurotic adults, Dr. Gesell (pronounced gazelle) went to the child. For 40 years, most of them spent at Yale University's Clinic of Child Development, Dr. Gesell has poked the fists of newborn babies to see how they contracted, taken 300,000 feet of movies showing how more than 12,000 youngsters grew in skills and aptitudes from the cradle to the age of ten.* This week, in a slim volume called...
...Philip's best-known projects is the Lafargue Clinic (TIME, Dec. 1, 1947), where Manhattan Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and a staff of 25 give psychiatric help, at 25? a session, to anyone, black or white. The clinic began in 1946 as a collaboration between Father Bishop, Psychiatrist Wertham and Negro Author Richard (Native Son) Wright. Nowadays, an average of 60 people a week come to the clinic for help...
When little Carolyn Joan Purcell had trouble seeing her Christmas gifts last year, Atlanta doctors thought she had cancer and would have to lose both eyes. But the Mayo Clinic disagreed, called it merely an infection, treated her with ACTH. In Alpharetta, Ga. last week 5-year-old Carolyn Joan's eyes sparkled at sight of the 1951 tree she had not been expected...