Word: stigma
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Moreover, American chemical makers--the largest net exporting industry in the country at an astounding $62 billion per year--are also interested in detaching the stigma of chemical weapons from their business. In the words of Owen Kean of the CMA's communications department, the chemical industry "does not make weapons. Companies are very interested in cutting the link to weapons-making." Industry executives further worry that member-nations will hide behind their provisions in order to erect other trade barriers with the United States; this problem would clearly not crop up were we to ratify...
...seems unlikely that the source of this quiet on the peer counseling front is the unusually strong mental and psychological health of the Harvard community. We may be uber-students in many respects, but we still struggle with problems and deal with tragedy. Granted, there remains a social stigma attached to counseling in any form, even that non-threatening variety that comes from your peers. However, I believe that the root of the under-utilization of peer counseling groups stems from a more structural source...
...lectures I've seen have been the rare combination of performance and personal connection with the audience. Professors with a real enthusiasm for the subject can draw in everyone in the room. And once the feeling of being part of a member of a faceless crowd is lifted, the stigma of lecture disappears and the learning begins...
...think it will go unstigmatized until there's a cure for it," Bloodworth says. "I don't think testing -- anonymous or confidential -- will change the stigma...
...Carol Johnson, a third-year student at the Divinity School, helps people prepare to deal with AIDS in ministry. She says she finds that dialogues about HIV- and AIDS-related discrimination "continually end up negotiating the stigma" among groups already struggling to overcome society's prejudices...