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Olivier Dubos was no more eager than any other young French reservist to be called back to the service and sent to Algeria. A towering, 35-year-old reserve lieutenant who held the Croix de guerre for World War II gallantry, Lieut. Dubos was bitterly resentful a year and a...
Before long, among the Moslems of Kasba Mechta who had paid for their failure to help the rebels, Olivier Dubos was a familiar figure. He acted as welfare officer, schoolteacher and doctor rolled into one. made a point of showing up in remote villages on market days, alone and unarmed...
Medicine is growing ever more efficient in curing the ills of the human race. But is it simultaneously weakening the race by ensuring the survival of the unfit? The question, largely academic in Nietzsche's day, is being raised anew by a man who has done as much as...
"For the first time in the history of living things," said Dubos in Omaha, "we are allowing the survival of large numbers of biological misfits, many of whom will become a burden for society . . . All kinds of hereditary defects that used to be rapidly eliminated by evolutionary selection are now...
No More Treatment? An immense amount of research must be done to find out what changes in the human body make it prone to infection-and, probably, more years of work to find out how to prevent or reverse these changes. But Dr. Dubos permitted himself a vision of the...