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...Those sentiments have produced a burgeoning nonfiction genre: the antimedical medical book. Last season's outstanding instance was Norman Cousins' Anatomy of an Illness (Norton; $9.95). More in elation than in anger, the former editor of the Saturday Review recounted his battle against a disease of the spinal tissue that physicians had pronounced irreversible. Cousins ignored them. If stress and other negative emotions could trigger illness, he reasoned, positive emotions might restore health. The patient treated himself medically with ascorbic acid and emotionally with laughter-inducing joke books and reruns of Marx brothers movies. Not exactly what...
...enjoyed the work," says Iva, who has already knocked off $1,000 of her indebtedness at $4.30 an hour. "I felt good about working." Before a spinal injury incapacitated her, she was a nurse and a census enumerator. Afterward no one would hire her. "Lots of people who are capable of working don't get the opportunity," she says. Except for a pet rabbit named Kortina, she lives alone. The linoleum floors in her living room gleam. The white curtains above the radiator seem to have just come from the wash and the ironing board. "I'm going...
...relieves the pain and swelling of arthritis, heals burns, soothes toothaches, eases headaches and muscle strains, and clears up viral, fungal and bacterial infections. It helps retarded children, prevents paralysis from spinal-cord injuries, and even grows hair on bald pates. And it is safe to use. At least so claim the dedicated defenders of dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO), which was enthusiastically promoted as a "wonder drug" in the early 1960s but then fell from grace after the Food and Drug Administration halted its testing in 1965 because of possible harmful side effects...
Whose Life Is It Anyway? concerns the right to die. Claire Harrison (Moore), a sculptor, has suffered a spinal injury in an auto crash that has left her paralyzed from the neck down. Her keen, sprightly mind is scalded by her vision of the future. Never to work. Never to love again. To be robbed of her own will by the hospital chief (Josef Sommer), who feels free to sedate her with a tranquilizing needle during a fit of depression...
Many significant firsts in medicine have been revealed in the Journal's pages, including the use of ether for anesthesia during surgery (1846), and an operation to remove a ruptured disc from the spinal column (1934). So important are the literate, well-edited and often controversial articles that hardly a week goes by without some mention of the magazine in the press. Now the Journal itself has become news, a target for reporters who charge that its editorial policies delay the revelation of medical developments to the public...