Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their astonishment, Northern doctors have lately discovered that eating laundry starch is all the rage among Negro women-especially pregnant women-in many Northern-city slums. At D.C. General Hospital, Chief Obstetrician Dr. Earnest Lowe estimates that up to one-fourth of his patients are starch addicts. At Los Angeles County Hospital, three or four patients a week are diagnosed as having anemia apparently caused by starch binges...
...real fun begins after Rosemary becomes pregnant. She firmly convinces herself that her neighbors are a coven of witches, that even her obstetrician is in league with them, and that they are casting their designs upon her baby-to-be for their own diabolical purposes. The plot hinges on whether Rosemary's fear is real or a fantasy twist brought on by her turning from the faith...
Parkinson, 48, the man who got California's Republicans to stop feuding and help elect Reagan Governor, retired as state chairman when his two-year term ended in January. An obstetrician who delivers more votes than babies, Parkinson has been an admirer of Nixon's for nearly two decades. "He is the man most eminently qualified as a national leader," says Parkinson. "He's respected everywhere around the world...
...went out, and people were left to interact with each other." He got Sociologist Robert Hodge to say: "They didn't-have access to a major source of amusement-television. It's not unreasonable to assume that a lot of sex life went on." Added Mount Sinai Obstetrician Richard Hausknecht: "It's quite possible that there were a number of unplanned pregnancies." Said Dr. Christopher Tietze, research director of the National Committee on Maternal Health: "If it should be true, I would think it's partly because people may have had trouble finding their accustomed contraceptives...
With the moral and philosophical issues of legal abortion still in hot debate, few legislators are willing to campaign openly for changes in the law. Perhaps, says Columbia University's Dr. Robert E. Hall, it is up to obstetricians to do so-because they are the people who are stretching or breaking the law. To that end, many prominent physicians, sociologists and clergymen have formed the Association for the Study of Abortion. Its first president, appropriately, is Obstetrician Hall...