Editing 1969 in science (section)

==Medicine==
* March – The condition [[diffuse panbronchiolitis]] is named, in [[Japan]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Yamanaka|first1=A.|last2=Saiki|first2=S.|last3=Tamura|first3=S.|last4=Saito|first4=K.|title=Problems in chronic obstructive bronchial diseases, with special reference to diffuse panbronchiolitis|language=ja|journal=Naika|volume=23|issue=3|pages=442–451|year=1969|pmid=5783341}}</ref>
* April 4 – Surgeons [[Denton Cooley]] and [[Domingo Liotta]] implant the first temporary [[artificial heart]].
* May 15 – A teenager known as '[[Robert R.]]' dies in [[St. Louis, Missouri]], of a baffling medical condition. In 1984 it will be identified as the earliest confirmed case of [[HIV/AIDS]] in [[North America]]. The first strain of the [[AIDS virus]] ([[HIV]]) has probably migrated to the United States via [[Haiti]].<ref>{{cite web|title=AIDS Virus Came to US Via Haiti|url=https://www.voanews.com/a/a-13-2007-10-30-voa66/331077.html|date=2007-10-30|access-date=2011-10-22|publisher=[[Voice of America]]}}</ref>
* International adoption of the diagnostic term '[[Sudden infant death syndrome]]'.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sudden Infant Death Syndrome|first=Patrick L.|last=Carolan|url=http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1004238-overview|work=Medscape|access-date=2012-01-26}}</ref>
* [[Wolf Wolfensberger]] publishes "The Origin and Nature of Our Institutional Models", influential in the move away from a [[medical model of disability]] towards the [[deinstitutionalisation]] of those with [[intellectual disability]].<ref>{{Cite web|first=Wolf|last=Wolfensberger|title=The Origin and Nature of Our Institutional Models
|url=http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1909.htm?page=print|date=1969-01-10|publisher=President's Committee on Mental Retardation|location=Washington, D.C.|work=Changing Patterns in Residential Services for the Mentally Retarded|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060512185841/http://www.disabilitymuseum.org/lib/docs/1909.htm?page=print|archive-date=2006-05-12}}</ref>