Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Proof in a Capsule. But the 21st case was an infant, "so young," as Dr. Lang puts it, "that we could look at practically everything that had gone into that baby." One of the things, it turned out, was a capsule of carmine red. A substance that goes through the intestines at the same speed as food, the brilliant red dye can tell a physician how long nourishment is staying in a disturbed digestive tract. Where had the dye come from? A small New York City manufacturer. What was in it? Boiled and ground masses of female cochineal bugs, Dactylopius...
...parents of an infant with suspicious injuries are presumed guilty of abuse-and must prove otherwise or lose custody of their child. Until now, many of the country's "battered children" (10,000 a year) lacked such protection because few can speak and their parents shield one another. Brooklyn Family Court Judge Harold Felix has attacked all that in the case of an infant whom a hospital found suffering from broken legs and ribs. Charged with abuse, the parents sought dismissal for lack of evidence against them. Judge Felix invoked the negligence-law principle of res ipsa loquitur...
...Doctors themselves no longer deny the need of putting their house in order; the more conscientious have begun to re-examine the gap between contemporary medicine and the Hippocratic oath. Where this book rests on statistics, it effectively states its case: a falling life expectancy in U.S. males, an infant-mortality rate that ranks eleventh in the roster of civilized nations (behind even Czechoslovakia), a medical educational establishment that not only fails to meet the numerical need but sometimes licenses inferior and undedicated...
...plea was as old as justice itself. You have the wrong man, argued Timothy Evans, who was charged with strangling his wife and infant daughter. The real killer, he swore, was the prosecution's chief witness, John Christie. Neither judge nor jury was impressed, and in 1950 Evans was hanged in a London prison...
...build and landscape the chapel above their wine caves near Reims. Foujita did 1,076 sq. ft. of frescoes inside the 47-ft.-long chapel, including a side chapel honoring the Madonna of the Vines, who sits on a wine cask and offers grapes to the infant Jesus...