Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Dr. Martha Eliot was named to this Professorship in 1957, she saw that one of the centers could serve as a demonstration unit for the testing of new public health concepts. She picked out the Bromley-Heath Clinic because of its proximity to the Harvard Medical School. After her death, a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1966 led to the expansion of the center's activities from weekly sessions for treatment of children to care of children and mothers five days a week...
With a full-time staff of doctors, nurses, dentists, and social workers, the Clinic needed a full-time director. Dr. Salber, who was then a Senior Research Associate in Epidemiology at the School of Public Health and a Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute, said she "wanted to get back into the social realm of medicine." She laughed and added, "I don't ever remember saying, 'Yes, I'll take it.' But somehow I found I had the job, and by August 1967, I was working there full-time...
...were particularly anxious that their four children not grow up in such an atmosphere. When the Harvard School of Public Health offered Dr. Salber's husband a position in 1956, they were able to get their visa and move to the States. A few years after they left the clinic in Durban collapsed...
Like too many welfare programs, the clinic had been organized simply as a handout. Little concern was shown for the dignity of individuals. It was that kind of attitude that turned the poor to quacks who at least remembered their names and soothed their emotional if not their physical needs. in houses just outside the project. But fewer families in these homes--one-third of them--are without a father. And fewer of the women running these houses are on welfare: 75 per cent of them as compared with nearly 100 per cent in the housing project...
...First seen in this clinic by Dr. Jones when the mohter brought Timothy, age 5, in for a swelling under the arm. She also brought in Susan, 11, and Kathy, 7. Susan is a very intelligent girl and has been chosen for the Latin School Test from her school. She has failed the eye tests and should be wearing glasses. She has very little sight in her left eye. She was referred to the doctor for an eye examination. Kathy also has eye difficulty...