Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past several months, buried in the stacks of Langdell Library at the Law School, Chung has prepared a bill, for the State Legislature, which would ensure that minors can receive confidential medical treatment in Massachusetts...
Doctors are afraid to keep minors' medical records confidential because common law labels treatment without parental consent "assault and battery," she said...
After some preliminary digging, Chung discovered a little-known ruling of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in the case of Baird versus Belotti in January 1977. The court ruled that, in all cases except abortion, a "mature minor" may receive confidential medical treatment where it is in his/her best interest not to notify the parents...
...Americans have passed through periods of appalling cruelty and stupidity toward children. To the early Calvinists, a child was a lump of pure depravity. In Massachusetts Bay Colony, it was against the law for children to play. Things were not much better after behavioral psychologists undertook to dictate the treatment of children. Dr. J.B. Watson, an earlier generation's Dr. Spock, insisted in 1928 that children must be treated with cold scientific detachment. "Never hug and kiss them," he advised...
...that I am an avid feminist. I've marched for ERA, fought for abortion rights, cursed Phyllis Schafly in my sleep, and waved Title IX in the faces of numerous administrators. But why should the sexes be treated so differently? To wipe out these unfair and degrading differences in treatment, it's important that all people, male and female, work together and discuss the problems of sexism openly. To exclude males, as RUS did with this women-only dining hall, is a severe blow to this process...