Word: fatalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lengthening lifespan and medical wonders, death may take on connotations of failure. Whose failure, or what kind of failure, is not at all clear, but the essence of the feeling is there. As Jerome Bruner puts it, "Death today has become somehow impersonal and unnecessary, perhaps like a fatal vitamin deficiency that might have been prevented or at least delayed...
...Cells. In the acute leukemia of childhood, drugs given to fight the cancer also cut down resistance to infection. One common infection, Dr. Zubrod said, exerts its deadly effects because the child lacks a form of white blood cell known as the granulocyte. The condition used to be 100% fatal. But the Government-sponsored Anti-Leukemia Task Force found that adult victims of a different kind of leukemia, the chronic myelogenous form, have a great excess of granulocytes. Some have donated blood from which up to 100 billion granulocytes have been extracted and given to a single child victim...
JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate; JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Both these new biographies contest the legend of Keats as a romantic weakling "half in love with easeful death," reveal him instead as a vigorous, tough-minded young man who fought his fatal disease as stubbornly as he did the local bully. Bate concentrates on the poet's work, Miss Ward on the poet's life...
JOHN KEATS, by Walter Jackson Bate; JOHN KEATS, by Aileen Ward. Both these new biographies contest the legend of Keats as a romantic weakling "half in love with easeful death," reveal him instead as a vigorous, tough-minded young man who fought his fatal disease as stubbornly as he did the local bully. Bate concentrates on the poet's work, Miss Ward on the poet's life...
...University of Cincinnati surgeons, headed by Dr. James A. Helmsworth, did not try to sever the two great vessels and switch them. The job would have been forbiddingly difficult and almost certainly fatal. Instead, the doctors adopted a method devised by Swedish Surgeon Ake Senning: they rearranged the heart's inflow pipes, which are only half as big and therefore twice as suitable for surgery...