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The Future of the Hospital Wilson Quarterly
WEBC. Everett Koop, M.D., was surgeon general of the U.S. Public Health Service from 1981 to 1989.
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The Hidden Agony of Woodrow Wilson Wilson Quarterly
WEBI n a letter of 1911 to his special lady friend, Mary Peck, Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) confessed that in his childhood he had “lived a dream life (almost too exclusively, perhaps).” Both his father and his mother had helped to enrich that life by regularly reading aloud to him from the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Scott, the collected essays of Charles …
Medicine Meets the Computer Wilson Quarterly
WEBThe sources: “Use of Electronic Health Records in U.S. Hospitals” by Ashish K. Jha et al., “No Small Change for the Health Information Economy” by Kenneth D. Mandl and Isaac S. Kohane, and “Stimulating the Adoption of Health Information Technology” by David Blumenthal, in The New England Journal of Medicine, April 16, March 26, and April 9, …
Defining Disease Wilson Quarterly
WEBMAKING SENSE OF ILLNESS: Science, Society, and Disease. By Robert A. Aronowitz, M.D. Cambridge Univ. Press. 267 pp. $29.95. Asuccessful attorney suddenly begins relief, another internist assures her that feeling listless and exhausted. she does indeed suffer from an illness, Finding nothing amiss despite extensive chronic fatigue syndrome.
What Is Retirement For
WEBToday’s 65-year-olds can expect to live, on average, more than 18 years longer, and to enjoy better health. And most Americans retire several years before the magic age of 65. The nation cannot afford to underwrite two or three decades of leisure for mature workers capable of contributing to our collective prosperity.
The City's Limits Wilson Quarterly
WEBFrom the moment Henry David Thoreau drove a post into the shores of Walden Pond, the American environmental movement declared its hostility toward cities—those sooted handmaidens of industrial despoliation into which, by 1920, half the American population was smooshed. The argument against urban congestion was moral, aesthetic, and …
The Nuremberg Interviews Wilson Quarterly
WEBTHE NUREMBERG INTERVIEWS: An American Psychiatrist’s. Conversations with the. Defendants and Witnesses. By Leon Goldensohn. Edited by Robert Gellately. Knopf. 474 pp. $35. As every publisher knows—and as we were reminded during Holocaust denier David Irving’s audacious but ill-fated libel suit against his fellow historian Deborah …
Genocide in the Outback
WEB"The Fabrication of Aboriginal History" by Keith Windschuttle, in The New Criterion (Sept. 2001), 850 Seventh Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019. When Kathy Freeman, an Australian monies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics, it Aboriginal sprinter, was chosen to carry the was widely viewed as a sign that Australians Olympic torch during the opening cere-were …
The Cost of 9/11 Wilson Quarterly
WEBHow many people died as a result of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? Most sources now settle on the figure of 2,975, but too many imponderables confound a perfect determination. For example, do you count the man who died later of lung cancer after breathing debris from New York’s ruined World Trade Center?
The New Face of Global Giving
WEBsaw a compelling problem. Surprising numbers of poor, undernourished women from the Ethiopian countryside. suffered from a condition called fistula, a tear in the bladder. or intestine during childbirth that leads to poor hygiene and. very often to the complete ostracism of these women by even. their closest family.
Escaping the Ghetto Wilson Quarterly
WEBTHE SOURCE: “Longer-Term Impacts of Mentoring, Educational Services, and Learning Incentives: Evidence From a Randomized Trial in the United States” by Núria Rodríguez-Planas, in American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Oct. 2012.
FDR's Hidden Handicap Wilson Quarterly
WEB16m 16sec. Summer 2005. Download PDF. D. uring his 12 years in the White House, Franklin D. Roosevelt was hardly ever photographed in a wheelchair. Not surprisingly, the longest-serving president in American history disliked drawing attention to his polio symptoms. He had been stricken suddenly by the disease in 1921, at age 39, seven …
The President and the Wheelchair
WEBReacting early in the 1928 gubernatorial campaign to the Republi-can charge that paralysis made Roosevelt unfit for office, Al Smith, who had drafted the younger man to succeed him in Albany while he himself ran for president, snorted, “But the answer to that is that a governor does not have to be an acrobat.
THE AUTOMOBILE AGE Wilson Quarterly
WEBTHE AUTOMOBILE AGE. 1913, Scribner's Magazine was predicting that cars would bring "greater liberty, greater fruitfulness of time and effort, brighter glimpses of the wide and beautiful world," and "more health and happiness.. . . Thank God we live in the era of the motor car!" More than any other people, Americans would embrace the automobile
Finding Happiness After Harvard
WEBVaillant sees the men in terms of their “adaptations” or “defense mech-anisms,” the unconscious thoughts and actions that shape a person’s approach to life. These range from the psychotic to the immature (such as passive aggression) to the neurotic (such as intellectualization). The healthiest men exhibit “mature” adaptations.
American Black Sheep Wilson Quarterly
WEBFALLEN FOUNDER: The Life of Aaron Burr. By Nancy Isenberg. Viking. 540 pp. $29.95. Aaron Burr—grandson of the preacher Jonathan Edwards, distinguished veteran of the War for Independence, and our third vice president—was one of the United States’ great villains, an American Napoleon whose ambition knew no bounds, a lady-thrilling Lothario, a …
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