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The new reproductive technologies have dramatic social implications, undermining previous biological assumptions about the relationships between mothers and fathers and children within families. Insofar as we may now distinguish between genetic motherhood, gestational motherhood, and social motherhood, three different women may participate in the decision to produce a child. Who is its "real" mother? Given the complicated interpenetration of nature and technology within reproductive situations today, we need to develop new social accounts of what it means to create a family. We require new narratives that highlight the wondrous kinship possibilities afforded by the new reproductive technologies while at the same time articulating the responsibilities of parenthood within new familial groupings.
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Family , Mothers , Reproductive Techniques , Cloning, Organism , Female , Humans , Interpersonal Relations , Male , Philosophy , Social Perception , Social Values , Surrogate Mothers , WomenSubject(s)
Alcoholism/prevention & control , Drug and Narcotic Control/legislation & jurisprudence , Illicit Drugs , Social Problems/legislation & jurisprudence , Social Responsibility , Social Values , Substance-Related Disorders/prevention & control , Alcoholism/psychology , Humans , New York , Social Class , Substance-Related Disorders/psychologyABSTRACT
Abnormalities in pulmonary functions in a group of ten patients with tropical pulmonary eosinophilia were analysed. Mild obstruction was observed in four, restrictive pattern in three, combined defect in one and two had normal study. Except in one patient in whom mild obstructive defect persisted, functions in all others reverted to normal on treatment with diethylcarbamazine.
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Pulmonary Eosinophilia/physiopathology , Respiratory Mechanics , Adolescent , Adult , Carbon Monoxide , Forced Expiratory Volume , Humans , Male , Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity , Total Lung Capacity , Vital CapacityABSTRACT
Twenty-two patients with smear-negative miliary tuberculosis underwent fiberbronchoscopy and brush smears; bronchial aspirates and transbronchial lung biopsy specimens were obtained. A definite diagnosis of tuberculosis was made in 16 (73 percent) patients. A rapid diagnosis was established in 14 of these 16 patients either from brush smears alone (three) or bronchial aspirate smear alone (one) or exclusively by histopathologic study of biopsy specimens (seven). Both brush smears and biopsy histopathology results provided the diagnosis in three patients. Bronchial aspirate culture was the only positive specimen in two patients. No serious complication resulted from the procedure. Our experience substantiates previous reports of the value and safety of fiberbronchoscopy in the rapid diagnosis of smear-negative miliary tuberculosis.
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Bronchoscopy/methods , Tuberculosis, Miliary/diagnosis , Biopsy/instrumentation , Biopsy/methods , Bronchi/pathology , Bronchoscopes , Fiber Optic Technology , Humans , SuctionABSTRACT
To assess the relative influence of decisional ambiguity and response uncertainty on task difficulty, a pattern discrimination task was presented to 60 college undergraduates. The comparison stimuli were nine 20 X 20 matrices of randomly assigned black and white squares, with percent of black squares varying evenly from 10% to 90%. The standard contained 50% black squares. In a low-response uncertainty condition there were two response categories, and five in a high uncertainty condition. It was hypothesized that decisional ambiguity should be greatest at the boundaries between categories. The results suggested that decisional ambiguity was the critical factor determining judgment difficulty.
