Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...November. It proposes that the law "which makes it an offense to advertise or give information as to the procurement of means for the prevention of pregnancy or conception shall not apply to treatment or prescription given to married women by registered physicians for the protection of life or health." It is, therefore, purely a permissive and actually a medical measure. Unfortunately it has been turned into a religious issue through the opposition of the Catholic Church...
...patients. If the bill were passed, no one would be obliged to seek or receive contraceptive information. It would only allow that woman who does not believe that contraception is against God's law to procure the advice from her physician which might save her life or preserve her health...
When crusty old Andrew Mellon was Secretary of the Treasury in 1926, he gave an up & coming young doctor named Thomas Parran a big chance-an appointment as an Assistant Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. Last week the trustees of Mellon's huge fortune presented $13,600,000 to the University of Pittsburgh for a new Graduate School of Public Health. The man named dean of the new school was Dr. Thomas Parran...
...Pitt Dr. Parran will have an ideal opportunity to capitalize on his years of public health experience. (As Surgeon General since 1936, he fought long and well to bring venereal disease under control. Last February President Truman fired him without explanation-TIME, Feb. 23.) The school, the most heavily endowed of its kind in the U.S., will be open only to graduate physicians, dentists, nurses, and others trained for public health work, and will concentrate heavily on research in the field of industrial health. As to its opening date, Pitt's Chancellor Rufus H. Fitzgerald said: "The university would...
Township bus case upheld the legality of parochial schools receiving public aid in such fields as transportation, textbooks and health services...