Talk:Norman Cousins

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Need for crrection: The Norman Cousins page lists Cousins year of birth as 1915. As far as I know this is correct. Yet at the bottom of the same page there is a link for 1912 births.

He is listed as a Jewish-American author. It is my understanding that he was either Unitarian or professed no particular faith. This needs to be clarified.

Dudes, I don't know about the Jewish American thing, but a quick look at Amazon.com will get ya a better list of his books. Reading his entry made me glad 'till I caught chronological and factual errors that made me realize none of the authors have read "Head First." Huge mistake. He was far more influential in medicine than he was in politics. I'd start editing your work but don't know how, have never done it and am not comfortable jumping in on the game. Lemme know ahd I'll help as best I can. For now the best I can suggest is read his books or at least that one. Impeachplease (talk) 03:45, 24 July 2008 (UTC)

Many websites sourcing material are quoting the "may have actually been diagnosed with Reactive Arthritis" - this needs to have a citation, as general searches aren't revealing any supporting data. It's also important to mention that both Ankylosing Spondylitis and Reactive Arthritis belong to the Spondyloarthrapies. Frankly, some of the symptoms of Tuberculosis have been found in recent years to actually be early presentations of Juvenile Ankylosing Spondylitis, although the apparent rapid onset does support the Reactive Arthritis theory. Either way, we who are dealing with the disease have few such examples to look up to, and are fighting many social misconceptions and lack of understanding as is - Clearing up such an ambiguity is important in our work to support Spondylitis Survivors. Kevin.Shubert (talk) 18:48, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

I've removed "(AS Is not really deadly)" from the line: "Told that he had little chance of surviving (AS is not really deadly). Cousins developed a recovery program". Many studies confirm that Arthritis in general, particularly in severely debilitating and chronically painful forms, do IN FACT decrease life expectancy, owing to several factors, including internal organ inflammation, reduced immune system effectiveness, suicide rates in the range of 2 1/2 times national average, and so on. Reference Arthritis Rheum. 2007;56:3583–3587 to start...I can fill pages with Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, and other papers, if required. —Preceding unsigned comment added by AS Kevin (talk • contribs) 14:09, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

I believe that the part about him not supporting women in the workplace should be changed. I'm actually currently reading the article that quote is from, and while many sites quote that particular line, they fail to realize that him saying to fire all the women was him being flippant, and he then goes on to point out all the reasons that that idea is faulty. He was not against women in the workplace. 73.130.21.90 (talk) 00:23, 8 December 2015 (UTC)

Einstein
I tried finding a source for the following sentence in the article but was unsuccessful.
 * His proudest moment by his own reckoning, however, was when Albert Einstein called him to Princeton University to discuss issues of nuclear disarmament and world federalism.

The sentence has been tagged since May 2016. It looks like the only appearance of this info in sources is a repeat of the sentence that is in this Wikipedia article. So I moved the sentence to this talk page. (diff) --Bob K31416 (talk) 16:16, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

CousinsQuote, forboding vs foreboding
A google search preferred foreboding (E) over forboding" The quotation is: "Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.” Nuts240 (talk) 20:05, 9 August 2022 (UTC)