Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite good intentions and the Great Society, the health gap is growing. In 1940, the infant-mortality rate for nonwhites was 70% greater than for whites; now it is almost 100% greater-38.8 v. 20.6 per 1,000 live births. In some ghettos, infant-mortality rates exceed 100 per 1,000 live births-approaching the level of a Biblical plague. In Mississippi, the Negro maternal death rate is five times that of whites; 74% of these are, in medical opinion, preventable...
...slit its wrists now would be like the parents of a six-month old infant giving the child away because, instead of walking, it could only crawl...
Social Sciences 5, Harvard's first and only course in black history, was conceived in tragedy and born--perhaps prematurely -- in an atmosphere of crisis. And now, less than two months after its first class meeting, there is some question whether the infant course will, or even should, survive...
...funding, we can enhance the freedom of choice of American women to plan the size of their families and the spacing of their children. I am committed to this goal and I think it is a feasible one that will have important impact on child health and reduction of infant mortality. It must however, be a part of the comprehensive approach to the health problems rather than an isolated service...
...terrifying, especially, on young babies. They don't have much blood anyway, and we have to get into an area that's all blood vessels. And you have to do a lot of talking to persuade parents to let you remove half of the brain of an infant who is only a few weeks...