Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...author firmly opposes euthanasia, however, which involves active steps toward direct killing. And he would have doctors provide the elderly with greater relief of their suffering and more home care and support. He would also increase medical resources devoted to defective newborns, the now hopeless victims of AIDS or any nonaged patient with slim chances of recovery. "A 35-year-old has not had a chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting...
Last spring, Cassell decided that she no longer wanted to be a doctor, but perhaps would like to work in public administration or public health. She is also contemplating a career in athletics...
...fearing that it would threaten their hard-won liberation. He adds that the owners of gay "back room" bars and bathhouses were prominent contributors to gay political groups and major advertisers in gay newspapers, and thus unduly influenced the debate. In one grim scene, a bathhouse owner tells a doctor at San Francisco General Hospital, "We're both in it for the same thing. Money. We make money at one end when they come to the baths. You make money from them on the other end when they come here...
...called herself the last man in the German Democratic party. A politician, a spectacular orator, a radical and a doctor of economics, she was a major figure in the early 20th-century politics of Prussia, Poland and Czarist Russia. Yet since her murder by German army officials in 1919, Rosa Luxemburg has been largely forgotten. Until now, that...
...Kingsley, who makes a brief turn as the American hypnotist/therapist Maurice consults in hope of a "cure" for his homosexuality, seems as if he's perfectly settled into his role. With his ridiculous advice to Maurice--"go take some exercise, go stroll around with a gun"--Kingsley's Doctor injects a less solemn note into a movie that could really use some gaiety...