Word: medicale
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When James Dorsey, an unemployed teenager from Detroit, packed his bags to go to Dayton last summer, he looked forward to a promising new beginning. He enrolled in classes at a U.S. Job Corps residential training center, hoping to qualify for a clerical job. But Dorsey had hardly started classes...
Dorsey, who is mounting the latest major challenge to the use of AIDS testing, is one of an estimated 1.5 million individuals known as "healthy seropositives." These are people whose blood indicates infection with the AIDS virus but who have not developed the debilitating disease that has now attacked 71...
Safety is usually the cited reason for setting apart those who test positive. Job Corps Director Peter Rell explains that his agency's exclusionary policy is meant to secure "as healthy and disease-free an environment as possible." All 36,000 participants in the agency's residential programs are warned...
Victims of these practices counter that testing positive does not necessarily mean a person will develop AIDS. Nor does the presence of carriers, or even those who have come down with AIDS, endanger the workplace, critics insist, because medical evidence indicates that the virus cannot be transmitted by casual contact...
The notion that one can die of a broken heart is embedded in folklore. A number of medical studies have supported that view, indicating that widows and widowers are at increased risk of untimely death. But the idea that grief kills has recently come under fire. The increase in premature...