Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When Chloe and a contingent of friends from the hospital pay a visit to the ancient city of Persepolis, they are treated to a night of terror as armed bands struggle mysteriously in the darkness. Assembling the next morning, the tourists discover that one of their number, an Iranian doctor, has been shot and killed. As they get ready to leave, Chloe has an insight: "Great dramas, your perspective on life, your life altered for all time and at the end you have to get into a car and drive home...
This tension between the broad sweep of history and the minutiae perceived by individuals caught in its rush keeps Persian Nights holding steady, well above the level of conventional romance. In lesser hands, the novel could easily have been called something like A Doctor's Wayward Wife in Iran, and been far more marketable in the bargain. But Johnson, 52, an English professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and a collaborator with Stanley Kubrick on the screenplay of The Shining, has found a middle ground between sensationalism and high seriousness. Chloe Fowler's good intentions provide a fascinating vantage...
...experts consulted, Catholic Neurosurgeon Robert J. White of Cleveland, finds the resulting document "ultraconservative." Patrick Steptoe, the British doctor who delivered Louise Brown, called the teaching "rather ridiculous," adding, "Our experiments may benefit a great deal of people in the future. I think it is perfectly moral to conduct them...
...only after Lancaster had given birth to a second son who showed some of the same mysterious symptoms that a family doctor began to suspect the cause. He had just returned from a medical seminar on a newly recognized disorder called Fragile X syndrome, which results from a weakness in the structure of the X sex chromosome (one of the 46 chromosomes -- complex molecules containing long segments of DNA -- in the nucleus of the human cell). The behavior of the Lancaster children seemed to fit the patterns described at the meeting, and tests at Denver's Children's Hospital soon...
...Munoz to see the child several days a week, and will give her $50 a month in child support. The case signals how common such disputes may become. Munoz and the Haros, who wrote their own brief surrogate contract, used a syringe to accomplish the artificial insemination without a doctor's involvement...