Word: clinicism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that drugs, not vaccines, will eventually conquer many other viral afflictions. Yet when the drug proponents met last week at a Manhattan symposium sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, they were dispirited and disaffected. The vaccinators, complained Co-Chairman Ernest C. Herrmann Jr. of the Mayo Clinic, have hogged not only the limelight but also the available funds, thereby inhibiting the development of potentially valuable antiviral drugs...
Ironically, Burger might also be affected by the proposed rules. He receives about $2,000 a year plus expenses for serving on the board of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota (along with L.B.J., who was appointed in February). While this connection seems innocent enough, it too would probably be dissolved if Warren's proposed rules against outside activity went into effect...
...stabbing was "a personal matter," which turned out to include the divorce proceedings that James had initiated earlier in the week. Swiss police said that the incident "was not likely to have serious judicial consequences." Meanwhile, Gladys, James' wife for 13 years, was taken to a psychiatric clinic...
...downtown Ann Arbor, Mich., a 30year-old mother walked through a door marked Crisis Walk-in Clinic last month and confessed that she had beaten her one-year-old daughter so savagely that the child had had to be hospitalized. It was the first of nine visits, to some of which, at the clinic's suggestion, she brought her husband. Gradually, and gently, staff therapists elicited part of her story: that she had been forced into an unwanted marriage. Eventually they were able to deduce that the child was only a surrogate for an elaborate complex of wrath which...
Mental Band-Aids. Founded in January, Ann Arbor's storefront clinic is one of several thousand such emergency-treatment centers now operating throughout the U.S. Under a federal program launched in 1963, this census will expand even further. Their approach to mental illness seems to contradict much of prevailing psychiatric theory. Crisis intervention assumes, for instance, that the deeply disturbed patient can be snatched at the last minute from committable insanity-and that the last moment may be the best time to try. It argues that relief of the immediate symptoms of profound emotional stress is far more urgent...