The chipping away began in the 1950s. ... Participatory Medicine has moved onto the main stage of medicine, just as Dr. Spock captured the spotlight at an AMA meeting so many years ago.

Before the ears, raised eyebrows, "Live long and prosper" Star Trek itself became the legendary success it was, Leonard Nimoy ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Jacqueline Kennedy has a chat with Dr. Spock on the issues of the times. Public Domain courtesy of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Dr. Benjamin Spock, in addition to many other accolades, deserves praise for his work int he fight to stop segregating Glenville students, Susan Kaeser of Cleveland Heights writes in a letter to ...

Spock’s gold medal came as a member of the undefeated crew team from Yale, which represented America in the 1924 Olympics and, as one contemporary Olympic account put it, achieved “glory on ...

But my first awareness of the name Spock came from a 25-cent paperback (pocket book) that my parents kept on their night stand for bedtime reading. The book was on child rearing and authored by Dr.

Dr. Spock, as he became known, “wanted to bring back confidence in American mothers,” Fass said. ... even above the norms of the supposedly family-obsessed 1950s.

Spock’s “Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care,” published in 1946, became a huge bestseller, second only to the Bible, riding a demographic wave of babies born during the 1950s and early ...