Word: orality
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Army Ethics committee concerned itself with abotulinum toxoid vaccine, and they weren't too pleased with what laboratory research into the drug had turned up. Army physicians weren't confident it would work, and the committee decided it should not be used on troops without "an abbreviated oral informed consent statement." In other words, they should be told. But the Department of Defense nixed that, and went ahead with thousands of warning-free botulism jabs in the run-up to the Gulf...
...protested the project. "You're going to dig up my grandfather and hang him!" shrieked one cousin. Blacks met Ball with suspicion, sometimes with anger. "The name Ball meant enemy," says Charlotte Dunn, whose rebel slave great-grandmother barely escaped murderous Ball pursuers. Blacks, left with few documents or oral information, can rarely trace their lineage more than a few generations. Ball's discoveries took them back to first contact. The exchange was painful, with stories of stolen 10-year-olds or slaves beaten or killed. "I came bearing terrible tales," Ball sighs...
...marijuana for medical purposes. The beneficiaries were supposed to be AIDS sufferers, people in chronic pain, cancer patients going through chemotherapy and others in medical need. But the law does not specify the medical conditions for which pot is permissible, and it requires only a doctor's oral or written permission, not a formal prescription, to get the drug...
Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, oral historian, journalist, radio host and raconteur, moved deftly from generalizations to particulars...
What mildly alarms me is how prevalent and widely accepted this practice is. Which makes me find my mother's otherwise anal policies on hygiene kind of ironic. We will regularly trade off oral bacteria seething from the remains of our daily diet but she insists that I change my clothes and remove my shoes immediately upon entering the house...