Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Masturbation Cure. Women shed no tears over Celestine Doudet when she was tried in Paris in 1855 for beating five young girls, sisters-one to death. The children's father, a fashionable English physician named James Marsden, had put them in the Frenchwoman's charge so that she might cure them of masturbation-a practice that Victorians believed caused epilepsy, asthma, paralysis and madness. Doudet's qualifications for this task were obscure; she had previously been employed as a wardrobe mistress to Queen Victoria, who gave her a warm testimonial...
...common method approved by their father. She also kept them on a starvation diet and subjected them to nasty tortures. On a rare visit to Paris, Marsden attributed his daughters' rickety, emaciated appearance to their persistence in the "secret vice" and ordered up some "preventive belts." Another physician who called upon the girls made a similar diagnosis...
...medical education. He says there is no need to separate pre-med work in college from the basic science studies of th first two years of med school. If the two phases actually were joined, however, the heavy emphasis on science that would result could hardly open the aspiring physician's eyes to the importance of integrating social and humanist considerations into the practice of medicine. Forcing pre-meds to study a range of subjects as undergraduates may not make them feel much happier about humanities and social sciences, but tracking them into biomedicine earlier certainly will leave them still...
...America's teaching hospitals for pursuing narrowly specialized care and research. This point is very important. All doctors receive some training in teaching hospitals, and the hospitals' emphasis on highly technical and specialized care often means that primary care is treated as a second-rate area of practice in physicians' educations. One of the main problems contemporary medicine is that too many doctors deal only with one area or function of the body and not enough look at the whole person, including the person's social background and life history. The latter kind of physician, working with specialists' advice...
...Leon Eisenberg, Presley Professor of Psychiatry, affirms in an essay on "The Search for Care" that if medical faculty do not convey the importance of primary care, it will be regarded as "trivial, boring and beneath the dignity of a professional physician." He also points out, however, that many of medicine's apparent shortcomings result from patients' expectations that emdicine will fill emotional needs once taken care of by more cohesive families and stronger religious faith. No simple policy decision can make families tight or churches popular. While doctors cannot be expected to replace these institutions, it would be wise...