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Spock's book helped revolutionize child care in the 1940s and 1950s. Prior to this, rigid schedules permeated pediatric care. Influential authors like behavioral psychologist John B. Watson, who wrote Psychological Care of Infant and Child in 1928, and pediatrician Luther Emmett Holt, who wrote The Care and Feeding of Children: A Catechism for the Use of Mothers and Children's Nurses in 1894 ...
Benjamin McLane Spock (May 2, 1903–March 15, 1998), widely known as Dr. Spock, was an American pediatrician [1] and left-wing political activist. [2] His book Baby and Child Care (1946) is one of the best-selling books of the 20th century, selling 500,000 copies in the six months after its initial publication and 50 million by the time of Spock's death in 1998. [3]
On April 15, 1967, the Spring Mobilization's massive march against the Vietnam War from Central Park to the United Nations attracted hundreds of thousands of people, including Martin Luther King Jr., Harry Belafonte, James Bevel, and Dr. Benjamin Spock, who marched and spoke at the event.
The People's Party ran Dr. Benjamin Spock for president and Julius Hobson for vice president in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.The party platform included free medical care, legalized abortion, legalized marijuana, a guaranteed minimum wage, the withdrawal of American troops from all foreign countries, [1] a guaranteed maximum wage, and promoting toleration of homosexuality.
Michael Kelvin Ferber (born July 1, 1944) was the youngest of the five defendants in the federal anti-draft trial in the spring of 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts.The trial attracted national attention [1] [2] because one of the defendants was Dr. Benjamin Spock, the well-known pediatrician and author of the best-selling The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care.
Best known for playing Spock in “Star Trek” and a deranged doctor in “American Horror Story,” Quinto plays a different kind of brainiac in the new NBC medical drama. Zachary Quinto knows ...
In their review, Publishers Weekly said that Crispin "packed everything a diehard Trekkie could want" into the book. [3] Ellen Cheeseman-Meyer of Tor.com compared the book to a glass of wine: "Sarek is the Star Trek novel equivalent of a glass of Riesling—sweet and light, but indisputably grown up." She praised Crispin and said "her ...
Sure enough, Spock's death was swiftly undone in Star Trek III: The Search of Spock, which was released two years after The Wrath of Khan became one of 1982's biggest blockbusters. And Meyer says ...