Word: dubose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Newscaster Charles Collingwood conducts a tour of the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan, where Dr. René Dubos is conducting his own tour of The World of TB.
The first degree conferred went to the oldest University in the western world, the University of Bologna, founded in 1000. In the words of Dr. Rene J. Dubos, "The historical role of Bologna is not limited to having shaped our institutions of higher learning. This most ancient of all universities...
Remove the Handle. Modern science's role in defeating infectious diseases has been greatly exaggerated, says Researcher Dubos. Many of the most terrifying-leprosy, plague, typhus-had all but disappeared from Europe before serums, vaccines and drugs were developed to combat them. Other Dubos debunkings:
No prophet of doom, Dr. Dubos is convinced that in the future, as in the last 100 years, social reforms will do as much as doctors and drugs to eradicate preventable disease. But man, he insists, must face hard facts with hardheaded realism. Disease does not surrender unconditionally. The very...
Reward for Struggles. The modern American, says Dr. Dubos, is kidding himself about how healthy he is: a man past 45 has little greater life expectancy than had his grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out...