Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Parsons will speak on "Social Aspects of Illness and the Role of the Physician," stressing sociological views of the situation in the United States and Russia. The second talk, entilted "The Doctor-Patient Relationship in the Perspective of American and Soviet Societies," will be given by Mark G. Field '45, research associate for the Joint Commission on Mental Illness and Health...
...looking at himself is so encompassing that the effects are felt in every aspect of living. It would be more meaningful to the reader to be introduced to existentialism (and other such concepts) in a setting that focuses his thinking on himself rather than on the physician as the one who "cures...
...Batista's last years Havana became the Western Hemisphere's capital of lust and license, with touches of depravity and opulence unmatched anywhere. Brothels, such as the Mambo Club, with chic girls, matronly overseers and a consulting physician, catered to U.S. tourists. Cheaper cribs along Virtues Street enticed Cubans. There were 10,000 harlots and as many panderers. Payoffs from prostitution and gambling ran into the millions and were efficiently organized, e.g., Batista's brother-in-law had charge of slot machines...
When a San Diego physician asked a technician at General Dynamics' Convair Division to sharpen a big and costly type of hypodermic needle, he had no idea that the trail would lead into the human heart. But more Convair design specialists and engineers got interested in medical gadgeteering; *last week a notable result was announced. They had developed a new and sophisticated heart-lung machine...
...enigmatic smile in Leonardo da Vinci's famed portrait, she might have split her sides laughing. For in 450 years the smile has been variously interpreted as sly and tender, coquettish and aloof, cruel and compassionate, seductive and supercilious. At Yale University last week an eminent British physician, visiting professor of the history of medicine, coolly swept aside all such adjectives and offered his own theory: the lady was smiling with "placid satisfaction" because she was pregnant...