Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock interacting with children in 1979. His bestselling book, "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," was published in 1946 and helped alter ideas about child ...

Babies are on our mind these days, and often for all the wrong reasons. It makes you wonder what America’s famous pediatrician, Dr. Benjamin Spock, who died 25 years ago Wednesday, would say to us now ...

In my case, at least, the timing was impeccable. Many decades ago this week, just as I was making my debut as a member of the human race, a young, largely unknown pediatrician published a book about ...

Such "reasonable indulgence," however, had limits. In 1947, the "crude opinions" of patients were still held in such low esteem that pediatricians routinely gave anxious new mothers detailed schedules ...

Mention the name Spock to young parents and children of today and the majority of responses will describe a character in the “Star Trek” TV show or films. But my first awareness of the name Spock came ...

Nicolaus Mills’ July 21 commentary on Dr. Spock (Cleveland’s Dr. Benjamin Spock and his 1924 Olympic gold medal in Paris) was a refreshing case study of a person who acted on his values and confronted ...

For the nation’s antiwar and antidraft protesters, the decision rendered last week in Boston by the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals was a less than resounding victory. True, the court over turned ...

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