Word: curely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...test the effectiveness of the 37 steps, the director of the institute's psychology department, Johannes Brengelmann, and his assistant, Elisabeth Sedlmayr, divided a volunteer group of 354 heavy smokers into three teams, each of which tried a different "cure." One team was treated with psychotherapy to learn the emotional causes of their habit; the second was given a drug that is supposed to curb the urge to smoke; for the third group, the only treatment was instruction in how to apply the rules...
Actor Michael Dunn, 38, who is best known for his performance in the film Ship of Fools, consulted several specialists in search of a cure for the arthritis he feared might force him to give up show business. He finally found help at the clinic, where surgeons operated to tighten his knee ligaments and reduce the pain in his legs. That surgery, says Dunn, saved his career...
...years earlier--a study of syphillis. The predominantly black participants, unaware of the nature of their disease, were offered elaborate free funerals and other appetizing fringe benefits in exchange for their cooperation in the study. Even after penicillin became readily available the researchers of the Tuskegee study withheld the cure from their subjects...
EVEN LESS PREDICTABLE are the implications of suspended animation. Although the art of cryogenic freezing is still crude, there are some reports of whole human bodies being preserved in the hopes of revival when a cure is found for a currently fatal disease. But current laws demand that the preserved patient be thoroughly dead before preservation and current methods of freezing cause so much cell damage that the process along is probably fatal...
...Obviously there is little point in waiting for a young woman to die of exhaustion from a spreading cancer if you hope to freeze and revive her after means of curing cancer have been developed which will allow her to live out her full lifespan. The best chance of success would come from preserving her while she is still in good general health. But would a patient be committing suicide by deliberately entering a frozen state while well? Or would a doctor be committing murder by processing her under these conditions? There would be no way to know in advance...