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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this southwestern Appalachian mining town of 3,500, nine out of ten adult residents are out of work, making it one of the hardest-hit areas in the hardest-hit state in the country. Mining industry layoffs have pushed unemployment in West Virginia to 21%, up eight percentage points in the past year and the highest rate for any state in the nation...
...original conclusion of a new landmark study, The Natural History of Alcoholism: Causes, Patterns, and Paths to Recovery (Harvard University Press; $25), on the affliction that hits one American family in three. The author, Dr. George Vaillant, 48, a Harvard psychiatrist, is one of the most respected researchers in adult development. Vaillant tackles other key questions that specialists in the disorder have been debating for years: Can an alcoholic return to social drinking? Is there a genetic cause for the affliction? Why are some ethnic groups more likely to become alcoholics? How effective are hospital treatment centers...
...does not lessen a child's chances of becoming an alcoholic, nor does coming from a family with many problems increase the risk. Vaillant is reluctant to make predictions about behavior, but believes that the best sign that a child may not develop into an alcoholic as an adult is an "ineffable" quality-ego strength-that seems to come from experiencing a sense of competence when the person is young...
Current laws also provide that a rational patient can make his own healthcare decisions in most cases. "A competent adult has the right to refuse medical treatment even if the ultimate result is death," writes Milwaukee Attorney Robyn Shapiro in the Harvard Journal on Legislation. "This right is grounded in the doctrine of informed consent and in the constitutional right to privacy." But as the case of Peter Cinque demonstrates, medical institutions do not always automatically honor a patient's wishes, often for fear of a malpractice suit by surviving relatives or a belief that the patient does...
...dead. Then I thought I saw a hand move, slightly. But I had been up for more than 24 hours and thought it was just fatigue. Then he moved again. And the nurse gave him to me. He was strong enough, at that point, to hold one adult finger. He had my eyebrows, Cindy's long thin fingers, a head of hair, and a mouth that seemed a cross between us both...