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...three Medical School proponents of lobotomies include Drs. Henry t. Ballantine, Frank R. Ervin, and Vernon H. Mark. All three declined invitations to participate in a debate with Dr. Breggin at the form...
...final battle centered on a series of crippling provisos put forth by Democrat Sam Ervin of North Carolina. Ervin feared that women would suffer hardships and dangers if the amendment passed. He tried to limit its scope to allow existing protective legislation to stand after passage. Ervin raised the specter of women "sent into combat, where they will be slaughtered or maimed by the bayonets, the bombs, the bullets, the hand grenades, the mines, the napalm, the poison gas and the shells of the enemy." Illinois' Adlai Stevenson III replied: "What we are doing is enunciating a principle...
...Vernon Mark and Dr. Frank Ervin, of Harvard Medical School, use a different operation. Part of the amygdala was removed in 13 patients, all of whom suffered from periodic seizures of violent, even homicidal rage. One of the patients has had no rage attacks or seizures in more than three years, four have had only mild attacks, and one has apparently not improved; it is too early to assess the results in the other seven cases. Dr. Keiji Sano, head of neurosurgery at Tokyo University School of Medicine, uses a similar procedure on the hypothalamus. All of his patients were...
...doctors are fully aware of the potential dangers and abuses of psychosurgery; some reputable neurosurgeons avoid it entirely. Mark and Ervin operate on fewer than 1 % of the patients referred to them for that kind of operation. As a further safeguard, some hospitals have committees to screen applications for any psychosurgery...
...pass a national program of day care, though the bill was vetoed by the President. It is fervently backing the Equal Rights amendment, which bans discrimination based on sex. The measure, which has passed the House, will probably come to a vote in the Senate this month. Senator Sam Ervin, who opposes the amendment as superfluous, recently told a meeting of the National Council of Jewish Women: "God could not be everywhere, so he made mothers." For its part, the Women's Caucus is backing a mother, Business Executive Martha McKay, who plans to run against Ervin in North...