Word: madsen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thestrup bill, newspapers do not dwell on it in detail, and a majority of parliamentary parties have given it their backing. Newsstands in tourist areas are still festooned with pictures of every pose imaginable. But this export market does not impress Denmark's most active pornographer, Leo Madsen, who publishes the mass-circulation Weekend Sex magazine. Says he ruefully: "Business is not going to be good...
...demijohn of wine in the other. Captain Armand, a former French paratrooper and veteran of Algeria, sports a Yul Brynner pate and fights on despite bazooka fragments in one hand. Another veteran has just left Steiner. Captain Alec, a onetime British paratrooper, used to walk around with a Madsen submachine gun, an FN rifle, and a shotgun, "just in case I have to shoot my way out of this bloody place." He believed in the "little people," who, he would say in all seriousness, "will jam your machine guns and cause your rockets to misfire." He was wounded four times...
...state help for a four-year study by anthropologists and sociologists. Last week, in Hidalgo's county seat of Edinburg, the researchers gave their prescription for dealing with curanderismo: "Don't fight it-join it." To the incredulous M.D.s who heard the report, Study Director William Madsen, a University of Texas anthropologist, explained: Mexican-Americans still reject the germ theory of disease and infection; to them, a raw egg has more healing power than an antibiotic, and a hospital is a place to go to die. It is useless for M.D.s to assail this quackery. To the Mexican...
...sell modern medicine to the 2,000,000 holdouts, said Madsen, physicians will have to adopt some of the curanderos' tricks. When they give vaccines to ward off an epidemic, they can say that they are injecting holy water. As for TB: "If the doctors just added donkey milk to the regular treatment, it might work out a lot better...
...Madsen and his study team recommended that Mexican-Americans be charged a token payment for each treatment, and get a receipt for it. because they will refuse free treatment as a despised form of charity. Finally, the curanderos should be enlisted as health aides. They can be given short courses to qualify as practical nurses, suggested Madsen. and allowed to wear uniforms or badges, and to dispense simple medicines. They should serve as go-betweens for doctors and nurses and Mexican-American patients. Then, at last, they will bring their patients to clinics and hospitals, where they can get modern...