Word: imperato
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...Daniel Imperato...
...example, he refers to the "stunning confirmation" of some of his theories in the work of Imperato-McGinley. In this work, it was found that genetically male individuals from the Dominican Republic who were born with a hormone deficiency and were, therefore, raised as girls, at puberty assumed male roles. However, he fails to point out that a group of individuals with exactly the same syndrome raised in the United States, also as girls, at puberty retained their female gender identity! If anything, this is "stunning confirmation" of the powerful effect of the social and cultural environment in influencing human...
...Imperato Jamaica Plain, Mass...
Another early suspect was ornithosis, a disease transmitted through bird droppings and direct handling of infected birds. "The picture in Philadelphia fits ornithosis like a glove," said Dr. Pascal Imperato, chief epidemiologist of the New York City health department. "The symptoms, the fact that this is obviously a common-source outbreak, the fact that there has been no secondary spread of the disease. All these point to ornithosis above all else, and ornithosis is very hard to isolate." An Allentown, Pa., physician, Dr. Gary Lattimer, tended to agree. Assuming that the disease fitted this diagnosis, he treated three...
Dramatic Increase. The shift in prestige from snooty miniatures to large dogs is a big factor in the current epidemic of biting. "Dogs are by far a more serious public health problem for this city than rats," says Deputy New York Health Commissioner Dr. Pasquale Imperato. With Dr. David Harris of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital, Imperato has written a study of dog bites in New York City from 1965 to 1970. They report that more than 43% of the bites in the survey were by dogs weighing 50 lbs. or more. Confirming their findings, Urban Ecologist Alan Beck...