Word: professionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Mrs. Belmont, the guild's founder, began her career on the other side of the footlights. Born Eleanor Robson, the daughter of an English stock-company actress, she followed her mother to the U.S., got a job in stock in San Francisco, soon found herself touring with Lionel Barrymore...
Inherit the Wind (Stanley Kramer; United Artists). On July 10, 1925, at the height of a heat wave that fairly boiled the Coca-Cola in the jury's veins, a 24-year-old school teacher named John Thomas Scopes went on trial in the hill-country town of Dayton...
Reduced Role. Midwifery may be the world's second oldest ' profession, once ranked among its most respected. Plato made no distinction between mother and midwife, used the same word (maia) for both. An old Norwegian proverb advised: "The greatest joy is to become a mother; the second greatest...
Strictly Regulated. The practice of midwifery is now strictly regulated in most nations, and a 'worldwide shortage of physicians and nurses has given the ancient profession new life. Japan alone has 40,000 midwives, many of whom staff the 143 community health centers to which rural housewives go to...
Opposition from doctors, who believe resorting to assistance of midwives (even trained ones) is a step backward, has hampered efforts to expand the profession in the U.S. and some other nations. Brazil once had 15 midwifery schools, now has only two-and 80% of all deliveries are unattended. Chile has...