Word: stigmas
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...beliefs about how so many historians misread the past-through misuse of figures, inadequate training in economics and statistics, reliance on isolated eyewitness accounts and subjective "impressions"-it offers a fascinating insight into how historians work, and how living political attitudes affect views of the dead past. Any stigma will do to beat a vicious dogma. Accordingly, says Time on the Cross, the trail of historical error began with the rhetorical zeal of abolitionists. Justly considering slavery a crime against God and man, they did not hesitate to exaggerate its iniquities I and weakness. Abolitionists like Frederick Law Olmsted...
...students the stigma of working for industry has largely gone. "People realize that business is starting to clean up, to become conscious of its responsibilities," says Senior Ron Wolff of Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. Students once again seem more interested in careers than causes. "When I started college, I wanted to help peopie," says Diane Gordon, a senior at Syracuse University. "Now I want to help myself...
...supervisor, noticing an employee's work slipping, alerts a counselor. If the counselor's investigation finds that alcohol is the culprit, he calls the man in and recommends a treatment-and-rehabilitation plan that falls under the company's medical insurance coverage. There will be no stigma attached if he enters the plan, the counselor tells him, and if he successfully completes it, his career will not be hurt. "If they do not want to go for treatment," says Jack Shevlin, an alcohol counselor in Illinois Bell Telephone's pioneering program, the answer is in effect...
...estimated 11 million homosexuals in the U.S., the reclassification is much more than a matter of semantics. They feel that the mental-disorder stigma has long been used to deny them fair housing, employment, child custody and immigration rights. Psychoanalyst Robert Spitzer, author of the board's position paper on homosexuality, supports their view. The new definition, he says, will remove "one of the justifications for the denial of civil rights to individuals whose only crime is that their sexual orientation is to members of the same sex." Many of Spitzer's colleagues concur. "It is unfair...
...SOUTH. Although the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham performs 50 a week (and could do more), many Alabama women avoid what they consider a stigma by traveling to Georgia for a readily available legal operation or even by seeking clandestine abortions closer to home. In Louisiana, because of a legal quirk, only one doctor openly does abortions. But hospitals in both Florida and Texas, as well as a growing number of special clinics, offer abortion services...