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Both forms of domination came to be challenged late in that decade, as television began to change the context in which these films were viewed, and as the cancer organization began to increase the number of educational films it produced and to broaden the range of subjects covered by its movies beyond its earlier focus on persuading people to seek early detection and treatment. Movies were of particular interest to the ASCC/ACS because the organization argued that visual media had a unique power to shape public attitudes and beliefs, a power, as this essay will show, that textual and aural media were said to lack. The ASCC/ ACS's hope was that, by offering a reassuring salvation story about the curability of cancer, the conversion narrative would help to calm the fears generated by the movie, the disease, or the combination of both, and so remove a barrier to people's willingness to go to their physicians. From its creation in 1913, the Society argued that for cancer control to succeed, Americans had to be persuaded to abandon past practices and to seek qualified medical assistance at the first sign of what might be cancer, and from the late 1910s, it worked to persuade Americans to go for regular medical checkups, even if they felt well.5 In its view, treatment was most likely to work either before the tumor arose, if a \"precancerous\" condition could be identified, or in the early stages of the disease itself, while the tumor was still a local, circumscribed entity, before it spread to other parts of the body and the possibility of successful treatment began to fade (See figure 1). 6 The problem, the ASCC/ACS argued, was that patients often arrived in the doctor's office long after the best opportunities for successful treatment were gone.7 The early signs of cancer could be subtle and easily missed, and pain or debility often occurred too late in the course of the disease to prompt people to see their physicians before the disease spread and became incurable.\\n 1951 Worry and Doubt 1954 Operation Cancer Kentucky Division of ACS and WHAS-TV.

WINNIPEG (CP) -- Reagan Leslie had a goal and an assist to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings to 4-1 victory and a first-round Western Hockey League playoff upset of the Prince Albert Raiders on Monday night.

WINNIPEG (CP) -- Reagan Leslie had a goal and an assist to lead the Brandon Wheat Kings to 4-1 victory and a first-round Western Hockey League playoff upset of the Prince Albert Raiders on Monday night.

Leslie J. Reagan and John M. Riddle are historians well versed in medical matters. Although their books cover familiar ground, each presents a wealth of useful information -- Reagan on abortion performed on women, Riddle on herbal abortion agents used by women. Both books are well worth the reader's time and money. \"When Abortion Was a Crime\" is a first-rate exposition of the changing cultural and legal climate regarding abortion in America from about the end of the Civil War, when the law ignored abortion before quickening (occurring usually during the fourth month of pregnancy), until Roe v. Wade, when it legalized the procedure during the first trimester. Reagan, an assistant professor of history, medicine and women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, reminds us that, until the middle of the last century, the Catholic Church did not condemn abortion \"prior to ensoulment,\" believed to occur at the time of quickening; and ancient rabbinic teaching, viewing the mother's life as taking precedence over that of the unborn child, \"required abortion when childbirth threatened a woman's life.\" \"Eve's Herbs\" is a highly informative presentation of the history of the use of plant products, such as ergot, as abortion agents.

[Leslie J. Reagan] wrongly claimed that maternal deaths from abortion produced 50 percent of the nation's maternal mortality rate. The Bureau of Vital Statistics says that you would have to go back to the year before penicillin to find a year when there were more than 1,000 deaths from illegal abortions. With penicillin, the number of deaths dropped to 300 a year. After that, there was a continuing decline. In 1967, there were 160 who died from illegal abortion, and in 1972, the year before Roe vs. Wade, 39 died in all 50 states. Reagan's next claim was that criminalization of abortion could double maternal mortality. The Elliot Institute, an organization which studies the after-effects of abortion, in 2005 said that deaths from suicide, accidents and homicide are 248 percent higher in a year following an abortion. This figure clearly shows that legal abortion is more dangerous and deadly than Reagan would have you believe.

University of Illinois historian Leslie Reagan's study into the virtual disappearance of midwifery in the 1930s is discussed. A campaign by obstetricians linking midwives with abortion essentially depleted their numbers.

The brooms were out Saturday at the Comuniplex as the Brandon Wheat Kings completed a home-and-home sweep of the Prince Albert Raiders. The Raiders seemed preoccupied with trying to take shots at Wheat Kings right-winger Jordin Tootoo, who injured Prince Albert defenceman Grant McNeill with a clean hip check on Friday. Tootoo was given a game misconduct later in that contest for boarding Raider defenceman Perry Faul. Color Photo: Thomas Porter, Daily Herald / WHEATIES ATTACK: Prince [Albert]'s Landon Lillejord, shifted to defence during Saturday's WHL game at the Comuniplex, helps out goaltender [Aaron Sorochan] against Brandon attacker Caine Pearpoint. The Wheat Kings defeated the Raiders 5-3 to complete a sweep of a home-and-home series. ;

DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER: The Fall of the Soviet Empire, by Michael Dobbs; Knopf, 528 pp., $30 Washington Post correspondent Dobbs' firsthand account of the unraveling of the Soviet monolith is a remarkable tour de force, a pulsating human drama that resembles a Russian novel, full of biting ironies, driven personalities, and momentous confrontations. The author, Moscow bureau chief from 1988 to 1993, was the first Western journalist admitted to the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk during the 1980 strike led by Lech Wales. An eyewitness to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Tiananmen Square massacre, he covered a beat stretching from the brutal hothouse of Kremlin politics to freezing Romanian orphanages to labor camps in the Urals. Drawing on primary Soviet sources, including interviews and declassified archival documents, he unearths phenomena often overlooked by Western journalists - for example, the leaderless drift of the U.S.S.R. between 1974 and 1982 while Soviet ruler Leonid Brezhnev suffered a series of breakdowns caused by arteriosclerosis of the brain, or how Gorbachev, \"a master obfuscator and manipulator,\" used the state-run television network to establish a power base among the masses. Unfolding as a series of vignettes extending from the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan through Chernobyl to the wild scramble for property and riches following the collapse of Soviet communism, his epic chronicle charts the disintegration of a system that sidetracked the nation into decades of self-imposed isolation, waste and ideological conditioning.

Mason reviews DANGEROUS PREGNANCIES: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern America by Leslie J. Reagan.