Word: soma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Half the people who call on doctors are sick in mind as well as in body. To describe their trouble, doctors now use the word psychosomatic (from the Greek psyche, mind, and soma, body). Last week a top-rank woman practitioner of psychosomatic medicine, Dr. Flanders Dunbar of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, published a fascinating book on the subject (Mind and Body; Random House...
...equivalents of soma and hypnopaedia [the happy-making drugs in Brave New World] and [a] scientific caste system are probably not more than three or four generations away. Nor does the sexual promiscuity of Brave New World seem so very distant. In a few years, no doubt, marriage licenses will be sold like dog licenses, good for a period of twelve months. . . . Dictator[s] will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile [people] to the servitude which is their...
Memorial services for Dr. Soma Weiss will be held on Thursday, March 19 at 4:30 o'clock at Building C in the Medical School, instead of today; as erroneously stated in yesterday's CRIMSON...
Services for Dr. Soma Weiss, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics, and Physician-in-Chief of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, will be held at 4:30 o'clock at Building C, Harvard Medical School tomorrow afternoon...
...present Senior class at the Medical School will graduate early in June, and the "Aesculapiad," the year book, is to be dedicated to Soma Weiss, Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, who died on January...