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...profession are often scientifically untenable and morally indefensible." Szasz views mental illness as a metaphor for disturbing and disruptive behaviors, which he says arise from our circumstances and personality--and from our own choices. Until there is incontrovertible proof that, say, paranoid personality disorder is caused by an actual lesion in the brain, Szasz will argue such a label is a mere characterization of bad behavior that shouldn't carry the force...
...after all. For one thing, military sources confirmed that anthrax traces had been found in several al-Qaeda training facilities. Around the same time, word leaked that Christos Tsonas, a Florida doctor who had treated Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi, one of the Sept. 11 hijackers, for a skin lesion, had changed his diagnosis to anthrax after the attacks...
...Florida physician, the FBI simply doesn't trust his after-the-fact diagnosis, even though a team of experts from Johns Hopkins who recently reviewed the case agreed that anthrax probably caused the lesion. An FBI source says the doctor "had no cultures, no blood tests. His analysis was made from his handwritten notes and memory." More important, the source notes, authorities have combed cars, houses and anywhere else the hijackers were known to have lived or spent time and found no traces of anthrax. "We vacuumed everywhere they had been for residue." FBI officials remain convinced the anthrax came...
...flow of information that travels along afferent nerves, which send signals from the body to the brain, and efferent nerves, which carry instructions from the brain to the body's musculature. In many cases of paralysis, though, the motor and sensory nerves below the level of the lesion remain intact and could function again...
...that turned out to be benign. But this time was different. A biopsy confirmed that Ulene, the niece of former Today show medical expert Art Ulene, had ductal carcinoma in situ, or DCIS, a growth that is variously described as either an early-stage breast cancer or a precancerous lesion. "It was very confusing," says Ulene, a color stylist for Walt Disney TV Animation. "I needed to know more...