Word: treatments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Johnson's Administration, programs were in place that would dramatically change the nature of the country: Medicare and Medicaid, aid to elementary, secondary and higher education, civil rights, treatment of drug addicts. Scarcely any of L.B.J.'s programs were eliminated by Richard Nixon, or even cut back, and many new ones were added. In 1974, for example, HEW took over state programs for the aged, blind and disabled. The resulting Supplementary Security Income program is now a $2.9 billion item in the budget. Regardless of what party controls the White House, HEW has achieved a considerable measure of independence...
Although the book ostensibly focuses on the development and use of techniques for manipulating the brain cells and behavior patterns of those who stray too far beyond social norms, Chavkin also touches on a range of leftist-humanist concerns from the debasing treatment of prisoners to what he considers the racist implications of sociobiology. And the "mind control" methods he describes are sometimes as simple as a commercially produced electric shocking device called a "Personal Shocker," designed for the busy psychiatrist to carry around...
Commenting on last night's vote to table the Reisman petition, as well as what appeared to be deferential treatment paid Harvard when the council passed the earlier, selective moratorium bill, Graham said after the meeting, "I guess some of the councilors have some special feeling of connection to Harvard, and don't want to restrict its building plans...
...many months, the 35-year-old man has been receiving chemicals to halt his cancer. But now, emaciated and racked with pain, he can no longer tolerate the powerful drugs. Everyone, including the patient, realizes that the chemotherapy is not working. The cancer has spread, and treatment is being stopped. Even before the notion of death can be fully accepted by the man or by his family, a hospital official calls aside the patient's wife. He tells her that since the hospital can do nothing more for her husband, he must be discharged and she must find another...
...second sort of obstacle the disabled experience here is the unfortunate attitude about us that is manifest in the frequent condescending treatment we receive from many, though certainly not all, able-bodied people. The latter are usually well-meaning and good hearted, but are all too often unwittingly insulting. People invade our privacy, address us with patronizingly false cheer and blithely disregard our expressed wishes. This behavior seems to be derived from the assumption that we are not fully functioning adults and therefore must be treated like patients or children, doing what others think best...