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Hospital use and abuse (Episode 4 of 6)

Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 4: Hospital use and abuse. The Affiliation Program is a proposed arrangement between municipal and voluntary hospitals, which some are promoting as a solution to the city's hospital problems.

Research with the poor (Episode 3 of 6)

Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 3: Research with the poor. About performing dangerous research in hospitals on poor people without family.

New York City hospitals are dangerous to your life (Episode 2 of 6)

Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 2: New York City hospitals are dangerous to your life. This program is on the physical condition of hospitals -- the buildings and the equipment in them-- in New York City.

After surgery (Episode 1 of 6)

Documentary on New York City hospitals, evaluating the affiliation program between municipal and voluntary hospitals and abuses in the system. Episode 1: After surgery. This program focuses on the quality of medical care at New York hospitals, such as Jacobi, Coney Island, and Bellevue, where patients are often not the top priority.

Frances Willard's temperance crusade: a political school for women (Episode 6 of 6)

The last in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. This episode is on Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard's (September 28, 1839 – February 17, 1898) temperance movement -- a political school for women. Lerner puts the temperance movement into perspective and explains why women were so attracted to the temperance movement.

Dorothea Dix (Episode 4 of 6)

The fourth in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. "Dorothea Dix (1802-1887) played an instrumental role in the founding or expansion of more than 30 hospitals for the treatment of the mentally ill.

Angelina and Sarah Grimke (Episode 3 of 6)

Sarah and Angelina Grimke: slaveholders turned abolitionists, the first American women to give public lectures and to advocate women’s rights. The third in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner.

The causes of Francis Wright (Episode 1 of 6)

The first in a series of six episodes on important women in American history presented by historian Gerda Lerner. Francis Wright D'Arusmont (September 6, 1795 – December 13, 1852), widely known as Fanny Wright, was an intellectual pioneer, abolitionist, lecturer, the first women traveler to write an account in the U.S., and the first women playwright to have a play produced in New York.

Recent studies in the psychology of abortion (Episode 4)

This is the fourth program in the WBAI series on abortion. In this program, guests are Lawrence Lader, Eastern Coordinator for The National Association for the Repeal of Abortion Laws and author of a biography of Margaret Sanger; and Dr. Wardell Pomeroy, a doctor of clinical psychology, co-author of the Kinsey reports, and president of the Society for the Scientific Study of Sex.
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