Medicine and Human Sciences
- July 5 - The National Health Service begins functioning in the United Kingdom, giving the right to universal healthcare, free at point of use.
- In psychology, Bertram Forer demonstrates the Forer effect (that people tend to accept generalised descriptions of personality as uniquely applicable to themselves).
- Kinsey Report, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, is published in the United States.
- Julius Axelrod and Bernard Brodie identify the analgesic properties of acetaminophen.
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