Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Society and the Healthy Homosexual, by George Weinberg, a heterosexual psychiatrist, is a very readable book for anyone, and articulates the progressive perspective. Enlightened clinicians such as Edwin Barker, associate professor of Education and Clinical Psychology, tend to deny the validity of conversion treatment or alleged "cure" for homoerotic behavior. They believe that the clinic, if it takes any role, should assist in overcoming guilt and internalizing oppression, and help toward positive self concept and life adaptation...
Bigger Cut. The latest proposal for dipping into the culinary pot-reportedly cooked up by a Chicago Mafia triggerman named Tony Spilotro-called for founding a clinic-pharmacy where ailing union members would receive medical treatment and drugs. The Mob would skim off funds...
...need to destroy this mystification of math," says Sociologist Sells, and a few colleges are beginning to do just that. Not surprisingly, Wesleyan is among the leaders. Its math clinic, headed by Tobias, was founded in the fall of 1975 and relies heavily on psychological counseling. Initially, students-including men with so-called math blocks-are interviewed so that their "confidence level" can be discussed. Then students have a choice: an intensive review of high school math or participation in noncredit workshops, both with regular individual counseling...
...does not perform abortions itself but refers students to clinics in the Boston area, usually the Crittenton Clinic in Brighton...
...word to U.S. doctors via a Soviet friend in New York that a kidney was on the way. Rushed by ambulance from the airport, the kidney was bathed in nutrient-rich fluid, then "typed" so that doctors could choose a recipient whose body tissue matched it. Out of the clinic's list of some 200 potential candidates, the doctors picked Puerto Rican-born Jose Serrano, a former construction worker with incurably diseased kidneys who was alive only because he was hooked three times weekly, four hours a day, to a dialysis machine...