Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...those "ill-trained, ill-paid guards who are so concerned with security that treatment staffs can barely function," I object to your implication that the custodial function is antithetic to the good cause of social rehabilitation. Most criminal psychologists agree that a "sense of being punished" is a necessary precedent to true rehabilitation. In view of the trend to establish "country club" prisons, the only way the felon can gain a sense of punishment is by frequent sight of uniformed "keepers." Far from opposing or inhibiting rehabilitation, the custodial staffs are more responsible for eventual rehabilitation than any number...
State legislatures got the one-man, one-vote reapportionment treatment from the Supreme Court four years ago. Last week the court used the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment to extend one-man, one-vote to city, town and county legislatures as well...
Community health clinics originated in Boston in the early 1920's with "well child conferences," weekly treatment centers run by a voluntary nursing agency. Authority for these centers, whose practice was limited to preventive treatment of children, was transferred to the Boston Municipal Health Center by the end of the decade, and in 1929 each of the city's three medical schools took responsibility for some of the clinics. At Harvard this job was delegated to the Professor of Maternal and Child Health of the School of Public Health, and he continued to organize the informal weekly treatment centers...
...testing of new public health concepts. She picked out the Bromley-Heath Clinic because of its proximity to the Harvard Medical School. After her death, a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1966 led to the expansion of the center's activities from weekly sessions for treatment of children to care of children and mothers five days a week...
...turn away many, and those that persist will often find the kind of impersonal attention that Dr. Salber did away with at the Eliot Center. Only when physicians take time to explain problems in laymen's language, only when the patient is voluntarily involved in deciding what the proper treatment is, and only when social as well as medical assistance is provided will patients willingly follow through with medical care and reverse the common notion that the poor are unwilling to cooperate. To treat symptoms and then send a patient back into the environment that breeds these illnesses is inhumane...