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==Physiology, medicine and psychology== * July 27 – Delegates attending an [[American Legion]] convention at [[The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel]] in [[Philadelphia]], US, begin falling ill with a form of [[pneumonia]]: this will eventually be recognised as the first [[outbreak]] of [[Legionnaires' disease]] and will end in the deaths of 29 attendees. * August 26 – The [[Ebola virus]] first emerges in outbreaks of [[viral hemorrhagic fever]] in [[Yambuku]], [[Zaire]], followed by outbreaks in [[Sudan]].<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.1136/bmj.310.6991.1344|pmid=7787519|date=May 1995|last1=Bennett|first1=D.|last2=Brown|first2=D.|title=Ebola virus|volume=310|issue=6991|pages=1344–1345|issn=0959-8138|pmc=2549737|journal=British Medical Journal (Clinical Research Ed.)}}</ref> * October 1–December 16 – Program of mass [[vaccination]] in the United States against the [[1976 swine flu outbreak]], suspended due to public fears over side-effects. * October 28 – British evolutionary biologist [[Richard Dawkins]]' book ''[[The Selfish Gene]]'' is published, introducing the term [[memetics]]. * [[Dementia with Lewy bodies]] is first described by Japanese psychiatrist and neuropathologist [[Kenji Kosaka (psychiatrist)|Kenji Kosaka]].<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Kosaka, K. |author2=Oyanagi, S. |author3=Matsushita, M. |author4=Hori, A. |title=Presenile dementia with Alzheimer-, Pick- and Lewy-body changes|journal=[[Acta Neuropathologica]]|volume=36|issue=3|pages=221–233|year=1976|pmid=188300|doi=10.1007/bf00685366|s2cid=162001 }}</ref> * The term ''[[Münchausen syndrome by proxy]]'' is first coined by [[John Money]] and June Faith Werlwas.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Money|first=John|author-link = John Money|author2=Werlwas, June|title=''Folie à deux'' in the parents of psychosocial dwarfs: two cases|journal=Bulletin of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law|year=1976|volume=4|issue=4|pages=351–362|pmid=1028417 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Money |first=John |author-link = John Money |title=Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy: Update |journal=Journal of Pediatric Psychology |year=1986 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=583–584 |doi=10.1093/jpepsy/11.4.583 |pmid=3559846 }}</ref> * [[Norman F. Dixon]] publishes ''[[On the Psychology of Military Incompetence]]''.
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