Thursday Reads

Obituaries:  There was somebody who had died the other day who was famous, but I couldn't the hell remember who it was in addition to Stephen Hawking.  Well, AP finally got around to listing famous pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, a mere 99 years old, as having died.  He died in his sleep.

Brazelton had been active to about the end of his very long life.

Parents knew Brazelton best from his popular Touchpoints books, along with the long-running cable TV show, "What Every Baby Knows," and his syndicated newspaper column, "Families Today." He also spent a half-century working as a pediatrician in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After retiring from that practice in 1995, Brazelton estimated he'd seen 25,000 patients. 

Doctors knew Brazelton for his Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, sometimes called the Brazelton scale, published in 1973. It is still used in hospitals and research to evaluate physical and neurological responses in newborn babies, and to assess emotional well-being and individual differences. 

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Women are still not considered fully functioning human beings.
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