Word: physician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ramsey receives both support and strong criticism in the same issue of the Hastings Center Studies from Dr. Leon Kass, a physician and molecular biologist who works in biomedical ethics. Kass takes issue with Ramsey's view of death as an "indignity," insisting instead that "to live is to be mortal." Jewish, if not Christian teaching has generally held that view, Kass says; evolutionary biology confirms and strengthens...
...week's cover story often bordered on autobiography. Contributing Editor White's first file, on the historical roots of the black middle class, came particularly close to home, as White's grandfather was born a slave and his father, the youngest of 17 children, is a physician and professor at Howard University Medical School. White attended Swarthmore College and covered black affairs for the Washington Post and Nashville's Race Relations Reporter before joining TIME in 1972. To ensure that the middle-class black families he interviewed would be strangers to him, White sought out subjects...
...Johnny starts his algebra at the age of eight this year, why then Tommy will start his at the age of seven next. Have we all gone just a little bit mad?" asks Physician Thomas Charles Dann in a current issue of the British Medical Journal...
...Dann, who is the resident physician at Britain's University of Warwick, recently discovered that friends were giving their ten-year-old son a sleeping tablet because the youngster was too restless and exhausted to go to sleep even at 11 p.m. The boy had to do two hours of homework every night, attended choir practice until 9:30 p.m. twice a week, and also went to school on Saturday mornings...
...product to social services than any other major Common Market country, France is plagued with inadequate hospitals, schools and roads. Meanwhile, tax reform is long overdue: a typical tax bill for a French factory employee who earned $10,000 last year would be $756, compared with $291 for a physician or other professional person, $260 for a shopkeeper and nothing at all for a farmer. Thus the French worker has come to expect little from a capitalist, conservative society, and he puts all his faith on changing France's form of government...