Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wald commented that although he knows of no physiological evidence that explains acupuncture therapy, the method does appear to work...
...idea of indoctrination in a discipline with training in a methodology is not terribly serious at the graduate level; there the two tend to converge. But for non-academically inclined undergraduates the cleavage is an important one. At Harvard undergraduates should be able to develop some understanding of historical method or economic analysis without becoming subject to the bored professionalism of a grad student writing an esoteric thesis. A liberal education isn't meant to produce specialists in the liberal arts...
...goal of Hirsch's research is to devise a method that will "trick the immune system to accept a graft without using drugs." Doctors are now attempting to combat the problem by tissue-typing, he said...
...also discovered "unblocking factor" as well, raising hope that some method may be developed to free those immune systems inhibited by blocking agents...
...Immunological research resulted in the development of vaccines against polio, once a major crippler of children, and rubella, or German measles, which can cause serious birth defects in the children of women who contract it while pregnant. It has led to a broader understanding of allergies and an effective method of preventing erythroblastosis fetalis, a blood condition that can prove fatal to infants shortly after birth...