Word: neurologist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...locked in" to thinking of pain in his own terms. Thus the psychologist views it as a basic, elementary sensation like sight or hearing. To the psychiatrist, it is an affect or emotion, like depression or anxiety; to the analyst, the product of an internal psychic conflict; to the neurologist or neurosurgeon, a pattern of neurophysiological activity. The biologist emphasizes its survival value. The existential philosopher, Frederik J. J. Buytendijk, regards pain as a potentially character-building phenomenon that unites an individual with the rest of humanity in its existential suffering...
...such a baby's heart, U.S. surgeons are preeminent. So are the surgeons who operate on older patients' arteries. For trouble in the brain's arteries, researchers at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center have helped to develop a magnetic probe that will swim through the arterial labyrinth and tell the neurologist what he needs to know. At Harvard, surgeons practice knifeless surgery with a proton gun that destroys overactive tissue deep inside the skull. At Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, ophthalmic surgeons turn patients upside down to let gravity help them in repositioning a detached retina...
...labyrinth of arteries inside the brain. But at the latest meeting of the American Roentgen Ray Society, Dr. Sadek K. Hilal demonstrated a catheter with a magnetic tip that "swims" through small and tortuous arteries and can be guided to the exact spot that the radiologist or neurologist wants to reach...
...Albert Finney), has cauterized his pain by becoming a perpetual jester. He uses the child as a kind of ventriloquist's dummy through which to josh, mimic and needle his wife and the world. In a performance of sustained pyrotechnics, Finney does petrifyingly funny parodies of a Viennese neurologist who first assessed Joe's brain damage and of a pipe-sucking Anglican clergyman who is quite unstrung to hear God described as "a manic-depressive rugby footballer." To Joe Egg's mother, Sheila (Zena Walker), the child has become another pet to coddle along with cats, birds...
...reason. Even idiots can arrange words to make known their thoughts, Descartes explained, but "no animal can do the same." To him that was satisfactory proof that "the brutes" have no reason at all. Adler demands more before he will abandon man's uniqueness. Show me a neurologist who can "give an adequate explanation of conceptual thought in terms of brain action," he says; a zoologist who can "discover a non-human species of animal the members of which engage in conversation with one another"; and, most important of all, a technologist who can "produce a machine, specifically...