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...Central to this principle is his concept of the “positive deviant?? in medicine—a person who simply outperforms others in his or her field. It is Gawande’s project in “Better” to understand why some people or institutions in medicine are great while others are just, well, okay...
...identifies three qualities of the positive deviant??diligence, ingenuity, and moral strength—and structures his essays around these principles. In the last chapter, he offers suggestions for how individuals can strive to become positive deviants themselves...
...more prevalent, accounting for 77 percent of all incidents. According to a United Nations report, men commit acts of violence against other men largely to maintain their own “hegemonic masculinity.” Threatened by other forms of masculinity, males often put down “deviant?? males like metrosexuals. Those men who really diverge from accepted male behavior—homosexual men, for example, who can’t use the “I’m straight” card to defend their masculinity—suffer even more acute discrimination...
Besides the traditional, Arts First has had its share of edgier, experimental works. In 1997, conflict arose over the exclusion of an act called “Dancing Deviant?? from the program. The show, a multi-media solo performance containing nudity and sexually explicit material in an exploration of sexuality, included a scene of self-penetration with a vibrator and was informally referred to as “a back-flip on top of a dildo,” according to The Crimson...
...says the four or five performances of the “Dancing Deviant?? put on per year constituted only a few of many free-spirited Adams events...