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  Benjamin Spock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spock received his undergraduate medical education from Yale University, where he became a member of Scroll and Key and the Zeta Psi fraternity, and was a rower.
Spock was politically outspoken and active in the movement to end the Vietnam War.
Spock was the People's Party candidate in the 1972 United States presidential election with a platform that called for free medical care, the repeal of "victimless crime" laws, including the legalization of abortion, homosexuality and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Benjamin_Spock   (1376 words)

  
 Spock - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spock is the son of the Vulcan ambassador Sarek and his human wife Amanda Grayson.
Spock was promoted to Captain and assigned as the Commanding Officer of the USS Enterprise as Kirk had reverted to his former rank of Admiral in Starfleet Command.
Spock is often misnamed Dr. Spock and is confused with the real-life physician Dr. Benjamin Spock.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spock   (4096 words)

  
 In Memoriam, Dr. Benjamin Spock 1903-1998 | Mar 27, 1998   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Spock became a campus figure when James Stillman Rockefeller, Class of 1924, spotted the 6'4" freshman and asked him to row.
Nevertheless, Spock had a huge impact on the way that most of the Baby Boom generation was raised.
Benjamin Spock is survived by his second wife of 22 years, Mary Morgan, and Michael and John, the sons from his marriage to the late Jane Cheney.
www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxv/3.27.98/sports/spock.html   (421 words)

  
 Vision Journal - Benjamin Spock - Biographical Perspectives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
By 1937 Spock became a board-certified pediatrician and was increasingly captivated with the goal of changing America's child-rearing practices.
Spock himself swung back and forth on the pendulum of dissent with each new reprint of his book, trying to counter criticisms of permissiveness, selfish materialism and antifeminism.
In the final years of his life, Spock was telling his readers to follow his writings and not his example, knowing that as a father he had fallen far short of the ideals his book embraced.
www.vision.org /jrnl/0006/bvbspock.html   (1010 words)

  
 How Dr Benjamin Spock lived to 90
Dr Spock, the childcare author, not the man from Star Trek, appeared on US television advising parents not to give their children milk.
Dr Spock was, at the time, 88 years old and suffering from a long list of illnesses.
Dr Benjamin Spock died on 16 March, 1988 at the age of 94.
www.richardseah.com /macrobiotics/macspock.html   (1155 words)

  
 Activists Say Good-Bye to Dr. Spock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
In 1967, Dr. Spock was one of the speakers at a conference in New York announcing the "call to resist illegitimate authority." This document, denouncing the illegal and immoral war in Vietnam, helped rally radical anti-war activists and led directly to the formation of Resist.
Spock was one of the first signatories on the "call to resist" and remained a life-long supporter of Resist.
Spock was born in 1903 and married Jane Cheney in 1927.
www.resistinc.org /newsletter/issues/1998/04/spock.html   (648 words)

  
 CNN - Famed pediatrician Dr. Spock dies at age 94 - Mar. 16, 1998
Spock spent two years as a psychiatrist in the U.S. Naval Reserve Medical Corps and was discharged in 1946 as a lieutenant commander.
Spock first moved into the political limelight in 1962, warning of the possible hazards posed to children and nursing mothers by atmospheric nuclear testing.
Spock, who described his own parents as strict but loving, reflected that he was probably too stern in raising his sons.
www.cnn.com /US/9803/16/obit.dr.spock   (1326 words)

  
 Washingtonpost.com: Politics
Spock, who also wrote monthly columns on various aspects of child-rearing for publications such as Ladies Home Journal and Redbook, always maintained that his views had been misinterpreted and that, in fact, he supported a firm disciplinary hand in the raising of children.
Spock was already deeply involved in the anti-war movement when he retired, and he would remain so through the duration of the Vietnam War.
Spock's 1968 trial for conspiracy to aid and abet violations of the Selective Service Act, along with Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., former White House disarmament aide Marcus Raskin, author Mitchell Goodman and Harvard graduate student William Ferber, was one of the most celebrated trials of the decade.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/campaigns/junkie/links/spock.htm   (2260 words)

  
 Benjamin Spock dead at 94   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
A well-established 39-year-old New York pediatrician at the time he was approached to write the book, Dr. Spock used his training in psychiatry to enhance parents' understanding of child development, emphasizing the intellectual and emotional needs of children, as well as their physical requirements.
Spock took part in a series of nonviolent protest activities, including a 1967 march on the Pentagon, and he became the target of political attacks and outright repression by the Nixon administration.
Spock continued his activity as a liberal pacifist into his eighties, arrested for the last time in 1989 in a protest against US testing of the Trident nuclear weapon.
www.wsws.org /news/1998/mar1998/spoc-m18.shtml   (532 words)

  
 Dr. Benjamin Spock - Ryan M. Dinkgrave
Dr. Spock’s book, in effect, reared a generation of children, a fact that would later be very important in justifying his relevancy in protesting the war in Vietnam.
Spock would later be elected a co-chairman of the organization in 1967, and as biographer Thomas Maier states, “the organization was very much in flux” when Spock took over, “and its original founders were pondering its continued existence” (Maier 243).
Spock spoke very critically of the FBI and how they “thought it was their business to be suspicious of anybody who didn’t agree with J. Edgar Hoover,” and suspicious they were (181).
www.msu.edu /~dinkgra2/spock.html   (2389 words)

  
 YAM Summer 1998 - The Spock Legacy
Ben Spock had the unique ability to discuss complicated behavior in relationship to a child's stage of development, particularly during stressful moments when a healthy child might be expected to regress to previously abandoned behavior.
Spock understood in theory and practice that parents could be trusted to choose the best way to care for their child if the person guiding them knew that there are many healthy ways of raising children.
Spock's training in pediatrics and his study of psychoanalysis (for five years at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute) and child development were lucidly communicated without jargon.
www.yalealumnimagazine.com /issues/98_07/dr_spock.html   (3602 words)

  
 SIGHTINGS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The late Dr. Benjamin Spock, arguably the most influential pediatrician of all time, left children and their parents with a surprising and rather demanding legacy: advice that they stick to a vegetarian diet devoid of all dairy products after age 2.
Spock's revisions of what had been his most recent nutritional advice -- to include small amounts of lean animal foods in children's diets -- stemmed from a switch he himself made to an all-plant diet in 1991, after a series of illnesses that left him weak and unable to walk unaided.
Spock also suggested calcium-fortified rice milk and orange juice as sources of this mineral that is critical to the proper development of bones.
www.rense.com /health/spockveggie.htm   (997 words)

  
 Online NewsHour Forum: Forum Title-- March 30, 1998
Dr. Spock was consulted on everything; weaning, toilet training, fevers, rashes and, yes, discipline.
Dr. Spock's book helped us enjoy our kid and our life together as she grew and changed into the joy she is today, coping with her own exploring toddler.
I have trouble understanding why Dr. Spock is being blamed for effecting a generation of children raised without discipline or restraint.
www.pbs.org /newshour/forum/march98/spock.html   (1341 words)

  
 Dr. Benjamin Spock
As the eldest of six children, Benjamin McLane Spock was immersed in the world of childcare at an early age, helping to change diapers, babysit, feed, and otherwise attend to his siblings.
Spock's ideas have become such a part and parcel of the parenting landscape that it's easy to forget how revolutionary they were.
Throughout his life, Spock remained a tireless and courageous advocate for children and families, and his legacy will remain a source of knowledge and inspiration for parents for generations to come.
www.drspock.com /about/drbenjaminspock/0,1781,,00.html   (878 words)

  
 Icons of the 20th Century   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Spock banned “dangerous” foods, like bananas, from her house, and also insisted her children spend the night — both summer and winter — outdoors on the sleeping-porch.
Spock had hoped to sell 10,000 copies a year; it became one of the best-selling books of all time, with over 46 million copies in print in over 30 languages.
A common criticism was that Spock was too permissive, excusing all manners of misbehavior as somehow perfectly normal — he would even be blamed for the turbulence that would accompany the baby-boom generation’s coming of age in the 1960s.
www.abilene2000.com /icons/1213.html   (870 words)

  
 RW ONLINE:Benjamin Spock and the Unruly Generation
Spock got his medical degree at Columbia University in 1929, did internships in medicine and pediatrics and a residency in psychiatry and psychoanalytic training, and then Spock opened a private pediatric practice in New York in 1933.
In 1972 Spock was the Presidential candidate of the People's Party and got more than 75,000 votes with a platform that called for free medical care, the legalization of abortion and marijuana, a guaranteed minimum income for families and the immediate withdrawal of all American troops from foreign countries.
Spock explained, "I always assumed that the parent taking the greater share of young children (and of the home) would be the mother, whether or not she wanted an outside career.
rwor.org /a/v19/950-59/951/spock.htm   (1866 words)

  
 Millions trusted baby doctor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
The file on Spock provides a window on the government's campaign against left-wing protesters of the era, a time of deep suspicion and acrimony on both sides of the Vietnam issue.
A memo to Hoover noted that Spock was "not known to be a member of, or sympathetic to, the Communist Party." Nevertheless, his anti-war activities -- mainly marches and speeches -- caught the bureau's attention.
Spock urged draftees to resist conscription, and in 1968 he was indicted for conspiracy to violate Selective Service laws.
www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/2010/spock.htm   (417 words)

  
 Dr. Spock's influence still felt as his centennial nears
Spock has always been an advocate of breastfeeding and even more radical was his recommendation to nurse the baby on demand rather than on a strict schedule.
Spock's book was first published at the start of the World War II baby boom and soon became an authoritative and reliable guide for parents.
"At first Dr. Spock argued that the main focus of breastfeeding was for nutrition or food but he changed his ideas to say that breastfeeding is just as important for bonding," said Knaak, a researcher in the Department of Sociology.
www.eurekalert.org /pub_releases/2003-04/uoa-dsi042803.php   (381 words)

  
 Veggie Kids -- Dr. Spock
SPOCK SUGGESTS posthumously in the seventh edition of his best-selling “Baby and Child Care” that kids should have a diet free of dairy products and meat.
Parker said Spock believed his vegetarian diet had “given him a new lease on life,” and that he wanted the book to be “in the forefront” of linking animal foods and disease.
Spock, whose book is second only to the Bible as the best-selling book in U.S. history, died March 15 at his home in La Jolla, Calif.
www.nisbett.com /news/h-news38.htm   (304 words)

  
 CNN - Dr. Spock's little book - Mar. 16 1998
Spock sparked a revolution in child rearing that gave parents license to express their affection and enjoy their children by challenging more authoritarian attitudes of the time.
Spock dispelled the notion that babies should be kept on strict feeding schedules.
The next edition of "Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care" will be released on May 2, what would have been Spock's 95th birthday.
www.cnn.com /books/news/9803/16/spock.books   (491 words)

  
 Dr. Spock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Dr. Spock was nearby on the bookshelf with words of practical advice for parents panicking over how to handle toilet training or a colicky baby wailing through the night.
Spock graduated at the top of his class at Columbia University's medical school and worked for 10 years as a pediatrician before writing Baby and Child Care.
Spock will be continue to be associated with the bringing up healthy children and being the man who introduced a new way of raising Americas children.
www.heroism.org /class/1940/spock.htm   (409 words)

  
 BookWeb: Bookselling This Week Archives: Dr. Spock, Pediatrician and Author, Dies at 94   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician whose name was synonymous with progressive, sensible child-rearing, died March 16 at age 94.
Spock, who was born May 2, 1903, in New Haven, Connecticut, was the author or co-author of 13 books, including Dr. Spock Talks With Mothers (1961), Dr.
Dr. Spock attracted the derision of such figures as The Rev. Dr.
www.bookweb.org /news/btw/archive/931.html   (399 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Dr. Spock
Spock: An American Life attempts to reconcile the Spock we knew with the one we didn't.
Spock's was the voice that turned back the Victorians' harsh, "scientific" approach to raising children.
He took a courageous stand against the prevailing theory of his day when he incorporated the then-controversial theories of Freud into his work and told Baby Boomer parents that their children were reasonable beings who needed guidance, not debased creatures who needed the rod more than they needed a hug.
www.bookpage.com /9805bp/nonfiction/dr_spock.html   (370 words)

  
 [Reporter:June:98] Forum Celebrates Legacy of Famous P&S Graduate
At a post-forum dinner in the Faculty Club, Dr. Mary McCord, PandS assistant professor of clinical pediatrics, spoke about "Life as a Pediatrician in 1998." Dr. McCord has M.D. and M.P.H. degrees from Columbia, and she spent part of her residency under Dr. Margaret Heagarty at Harlem Hospital Center.
Besides having a private practice, Dr. Westheimer leads seminars at Brookdale Hospital for residents and interns in pediatrics and lectures frequently at universities across the country.
New York Times columnist Jane Brody spoke about the groundwork Dr. Spock's writings provided for journalists like herself in her talk titled "To Your Health: The Introduction and Popularization of Complex Medical Ideas for Consumers." Dr. Margaret Hamburg is seated beside Ms.
cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/reporter/archives/repo_v9n3_0009.html   (695 words)

  
 Dr. Spock’s last kindness, ANIMAL PEOPLE July/August 1998
Spock’s most notable accomplishment may have been convincing parents to give their children unstinting affection and encouragement, a sharp break from the “Spare-the-rod-and-spoil-the-child” views of the previous best-selling advice-givers.
Utterly non-threatening in appearance and mannerisms, Spock was nonetheless denounced from extremist pulpits as the alleged Anti-Christ, lynched in effigy several times, investigated for purported un-Americanism, and bitterly attacked by the makers of war toys, liquor, and cigarettes.
Parker confirmed that Spock himself had declared his desire to be “in the forefront” of promoting recognition of the links between animal-based food consumption and disease.
www.animalpeoplenews.org /98/6/kids.html   (1626 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Dr. Spock: An American Life: Books: Thomas Maier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-04)
Dr. Benjamin Spock was a classic American rebel, a man who rejected conventional wisdom in favor of experiential truth.
Spock was indeed "one of the great liberals of the 20th century," but he was a liberal in the broadest sense, like the young parents who read his book so eagerly:
Weaned on "Dr. Spock," Newsday reporter Maier describes the volume as not merely a manual but "like a pediatrician [who is] open all night." Few literate American parents thereafter were unaffected by its humane approaches to child care, which was until then far more rigid and doctrinaire.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151002037?v=glance   (1387 words)

  
 Spock.com
In 1992, when the CWRU medical student invited the legendary pediatrician Benjamin Spock to speak at the School of Medicine, she never imagined the impact that he and his wife, Mary, would have on her life.
Jana, who works full time for the Dr. Spock Company from her home in Denver, points out that, on other child-care Web sites, it’s not uncommon for articles to be written by freelance writers and merely reviewed by an advisory board.
Dr. Needlman, who worked with Dr. Jana when she was a resident at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital of University Hospitals of Cleveland, says he’s enjoyed fielding questions from parents.
www.cwru.edu /pubs/casemagazine/winter2001/departments/homepages/stories/Spock.shtml   (737 words)

  
 'Dr. Spock: An American Life' by Thomas Maier
When Dr. Benjamin Spock died in March at 94, his obituaries were as overstuffed and unlikely as a John Irving novel.
The two main acts of Spock's epochal career - as author of the Baby Boom child-care bible and then, in the 1960s, as goofy aging antiwar protester - were familiar enough.
Spock seemed to know less than he thought he did.
www.post-gazette.com /books/reviews/19980614review57.asp   (277 words)

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