Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these figures, many questions arise. Were heart transplants begun prematurely? Have there been too many? Or too few? Did the mere existence of the procedure arouse false hope in patients for whom no donor heart could be found? Is it better to die after long hospitalization and distressing drug treatment, with a transplanted heart, than to die a little earlier with one's natural, inborn heart? What hope does the immediate future offer for longer and healthier survival...
...heart transplantation still an exploratory venture on surgery's frontier, or has it become an accepted mode of treatment? On that, the transplanters themselves are divided, Shumway and DeBakey holding that it is still only investigational, with Barnard and Cooley just as emphatically insisting that it is already much more...
Community Treatment. The real way to change criminal behavior is to goad losers into earning the self-respect that they lack in the first place. Menninger would abolish today's moralistic "punishment" for the few, which simply deepens their hostility. Along with far swifter police work, he favors a therapeutic approach. Trials should mainly determine the facts of a crime, ignore the defense of "legal insanity" and bar the squabbling rival psychiatrists who now only serve to confuse the proceedings. Instead, judges before sentencing should be provided with psychiatric reports and (as in California) hand out only indeterminate sentences...
...cope with life and work under close supervision. Toward that end, Menninger's most intriguing idea is the establishment of psychiatric-help centers for criminally inclined misfits. Unfortunately, he is quite vague about it. If the centers resembled public mental hospitals, which often lack procedural safeguards, the "treatment" might be worse than imprisonment. Menninger's book deserves a wide audience. The pity is that his passionate, unprogrammatic advocacy may serve only to convince the already convinced...
Typical of such half-heartedness is the treatment of the song "Why don't we do it in the road?" A song with such a simple structure needs, and is ideally suited for, extensive musical exploration. The Beatles waste this opportunity with pedantic and sluggish guitar work and a generally uninspired musical conception, though Ringo tries hard. As a result the song falls flatter than it might have; particularly so because the shock value of the first line--"Why don't we do it in the road?"--is undercut by the second line which goes "No one will be watching...