Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Paris, where the Folies-Bergère ladies wear no blouses and streetwalkers are a major traffic menace, the puritanical elders of the famed Comédie-Française banned a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession, George Bernard Shaw's play about a British prostitute...
Ivory v. Red Brick. The gulf between the ivory-tower and red-brick schools of psychiatry over the new drugs has significance far beyond the profession. On its resolution depends the full and effective use of important new psychiatric tools. Essentially the trouble goes back to the Freudian revolt against...
Editors, reporters and newsmen in general are dramatized on radio and television, in movies and detective stories. But oddly enough, the average real-life journalist, while he loves his work, usually does not think that his own profession makes news.
How should the medical profession approach quacks? "We have a duty," says Horton, "to examine and study each new cancer-cure proposal, no matter how unreasonable it may seem." Nevertheless, Dr. Horton urges strong action: doctors everywhere should seek stiff local laws and penalties against "premeditated quackery," report quacks to...
* No such legal requirement exists in the U.S., but as an unwritten rule, it is not broken lightly. If found guilty by his colleagues, an errant doctor can expect to lose his membership in the American Medical Association, resulting in virtual boycott by the profession.