Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...whom the book is dedicated, I cannot but express my deep concern at your warped and lurid analysis of the novel. Since you agree that the theme of the novel does not center on the disease, you have deliberately and, in my estimation, shamefully exploited medieval attitudes to ward leprosy which render needless sensationalism. Graham Greene, as a novelist, has a right to choose whatever background he finds suitable to his writings, in this case an African leprosarium. The author's attitude toward the leprosy patient is respectful, in contrast to the thoughtless attitude of your reviewer...
...students, these psychologists are engaged in a research project to find out how effective volunteer work really is, and to stimulate mental hospital work in other parts of the country. Supported by a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, they are comparing data collected in two wards--a controlled ward and a ward with volunteers...
...recovery to have a chance of leaving the hospital. The volunteers meet frequently with professional psychiatrists, members of the hospital staff, and other "case-aid" students to discuss the progress of their work, and they study carefully the records of their patient's illness. But the difference between the ward and "case-aid" programs is more a difference in goals than in methods. "Case-aid" volunteers have a specific objects in mind: to get their patients out of the hospitals and help them to stay...
Terry Murphy '63, Chairman of the Mental Health Committee, is working with a "case-aid" patient who has been in the hospital since 1943, long enough to forget what it is like outside. She has become so dependent on the ward, Murphy said, that it is extraordinarily difficult to teach her to stand on her own feet again...
...wife, but in private must be as chaste as brother and sister. The true story of one couple's struggle to achieve this relationship is poignantly told in a new book, Whom God Hath Not Joined, by a young woman under the pen name of Claire McAuley (Sheed & Ward...