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...household medicine." He recognizes the inadequacies of the old G.P., but thinks that better training can overcome them. He acknowledges the need for specialists, but envisions them as part of a team. "Specialists take one organ and ig nore everything else," says Jeffrey Beckwith, 26, an intern at Bronson Meth odist Hospital in Kalamazoo, Mich. "I want to get it all together." Harvard Medical School Junior Jerry Avorn, 23, rejects what he calls the "academic and elitist approach" of medical researchers because it places no premium on the delivery of health care...
...result is neither novel nor poem, but a series of free-association images that succeed, at best, in creating a freaky fresco of hell. The book has the feel and sound of such nightmare Dylan lyrics as Desolation Row and Memphis Blues Again. It is peopled by meth freaks, lumberjacks, a man called Simply That, and a vaporous presence named Aretha with "religious thighs" and "no goals" who is described as "one step soft of heaven." A large supporting cast includes "mrs. Cunk," who sells "fake blisters at the World's Fair," Cardinal Spellman, Sherlock Holmes and Shirley Temple...
...doctors said that because the patients all had used a variety of drugs-including meth, LSD, hashish, and heroin-it could not be specifically determined that speed caused the disease...
Roger was still there for the Coda; when the darkness of city life re-emerged as meth-amphetamine. It was a ritual victory for plastic and concrete, and Roger, after getting ripped-off and beat up, came back East. But since it all happens about a year late in Cambridge, he was just in time for the capitulation of Cambridge Hippic. He was all set, in a sense. Roger probably would not think of it in these terms. This is overview, and what Roger knows about his life now is what he new then: that he has to stay alive...
Jesuit Joseph Flanagan, a longtime Lonergan scholar, was much less surprised. For Flanagan, Lonergan's meth od "not only includes but demands interdisciplinary dialectic. We must learn from one another." To do otherwise, says Flanagan, simply contributes to "the pool of misunderstanding" that in Lonergan's thought lies at the source of so many of mankind's woes...