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Midwifery may not be the world's oldest profession, but it is described in the earliest books of the New Testament. The midwife was an accepted member of the social structures of ancient Greece and Rome, and once held the exclusive right to assist women at childbirth. In most countries...
...require that a doctor be in the room when a baby is delivered, no matter how normal the circumstances. In a speech to last week's convention, Dr. Roger Egeberg, special assistant to the Secretary of HEW in the area of health policy, called midwives "urgently needed health-care professionals," and called for legislation to enhance their status...
Frozen Intellectuals. The intellectual atmosphere in Prague is as barren as are the prospects for Soviet departure. The famous avant-garde Theater Behind the Gates has been closed down, and the political cabarets that flourished in the late 1960s have disappeared. Such well-known Czechoslovak film directors as Milos Forman...
...Bates has any critics, either personal or professional, it is hard to find them. He is the son of musical parents; his mother was a piano teacher and his father was a professional cellist who gave up art to turn insurance salesman. Bates was only eleven when he decided that he would go on the stage. In school in the Midlands and ever since, he has worked at his profession energetically but not flamboyantly. After six months in repertory in Coventry, he took a job at the Royal Court Theater in London, then landed in John Osborne's Look...
SHE THINKS IT'S ridiculous for women to want to work in all of the same professions as men. "Why, I would never hire a woman lawyer or a woman doctor," she said. Another time she told me that if she'd been a man she would certainly have become...