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M A Field

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PubMed1990

Testing for AIDS: uses and abuses.

In response to the public outcry for mandatory testing for AIDS, this Article explores the major issues concerning the identification of persons with AIDS in society. The Article first studies testing procedures and the purposes behind them to determine if a call for mandatory testing of the general populace would better achieve society's objectives for identifying individuals with AIDS. Concluding that testing should not be required of the population as a whole, the Article then explores whether testing should be required of certain subpopulations which society perceives as likely to have or to spread the disease. In this context, too, the Article concludes that mandatory testing would be unwarranted, and that funds proposed for mandatory testing would be put to better use in education and universal precautions to prevent the further spread of AIDS.

AIDS Serodiagnosis↗
PubMed1982

Emotional disorder in XYY children: four case reports.

Four boys, from a group of fourteen with an XYY chromosome constitution identified by cytogenetic screening at birth, were referred for psychiatric treatment, age seven to nine years. Presenting symptoms included severe temper tantrums, stealing and enuresis, and they were diagnosed as having mild to severe emotional disorders. There were multiple factors of increased risk for psychiatric disturbance in their backgrounds nd there was evidence of reactive depression in all four boys. Treatment with individual and family psychotherapy, combined with antidepressant medication in two of the four children and special educational provisions in one, resulted in good short-term outcome comparable to that achieved in chromosomally normal boys.

Affective Symptoms↗
PubMed1979

A chromosome survey of a hospital for the mentally subnormal.

A cytogenetic survey of 756 resident, but otherwise unselected, mentally retarded patients in a Scottish hospital is reported. The karyotypes of all patients were examined using orcein-stained cells, and those found to be abnormal, other than those with standard trisomy 21, were further investigated using a banding technique. A total of 103 patients were found to have an abnormal chromosome complement, of whom 91 had Down's syndrome (including six with translocations), six had some other autosomal abnormality, and six had an abnormality of the sex chromosome complement, including two with an XXYY complement. Details of the clinical and cytogenetic features are presented.

Adolescent↗