Word: edey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Great Photographic Essays from LIFE, commentary by Maitland Edey (New York Graphic Society; 278 pages; $24.95). From its first issue to its last, the old weekly LIFE (1936-1972) published some 2,000 photo essays. These were as original in concept as the magazine itself: skillfully composed picture stories that explored the lives of private people, their tribulations and triumphs, jinks high and low, the places they inhabited or returned to or recalled. This collection, elegantly introduced and annotated by Maitland Edey, a former assistant managing editor of LIFE, includes such classics as W. Eugene Smith's Spanish Village...
Manhattan Psychiatrist Helen Edey observes that young woman interns and residents are frequently mistaken for nurses. She overcame the problem by ignoring it: "You can do the same things whether the patient calls you nurse or doctor." Leona Miller, now a diabetes specialist in Los Angeles, remembers the sincere but puzzled thank-you from a woman whose husband had been saved by a trio of woman physicians. "To think," the woman said, "that you three nurses took care of him and that a doctor never...
...couples prefer sterilization to the long-term use of contraceptives? "Because they know that failure rates from most forms of contraception are too high," Dr. Edey says. "Or they are afraid of side effects from the Pill, or they have aesthetic objections to having to remember to insert something at what is emotionally the wrong time...