Scapegoat

Sodium bisulfite: scapegoat for chloroprocaine neurotoxicity?

BACKGROUND Neurologic deficits after apparent intrathecal injection of 3% Nesacaine-CE intended for epidural administration created concern about the potential toxicity of chloroprocaine and the preservative sodium bisulfite. Although bisulfite-free formulations of chloroprocaine were subsequently introduced into clinical practice, the relative toxicities of this anesthetic and preservative wer...

Limitations of the scapegoat theory of prejudice.

Agricultural antibiotics and resistance in human pathogens: villain or scapegoat?

Despite advances in prevention, diagnosis and management, infectious diseases endure as the most common cause of death worldwide and the third most common cause of death in the developed world. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in human pathogens now threatens to increase overall mortality, morbidity and health care costs around the world. Addressing the issue of antimicrobial resistanc...

A Representative and a Scapegoat: Analysis of Tessie Hutchinson in The Lottery

The study is an analysis of the character Tessie Hutchinson in American writer Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery. The duality in Tessie’s character represents the psychological conditions of all the participants in the lottery; while at the same time, having unfortunately won the lottery, Mrs. Hutchingson serves in the story as a victim, a scapegoat of the brutal primitive ceremony. In ...

Extracurricular involvement among affluent youth: a scapegoat for "ubiquitous achievement pressures"?

It has been suggested that over-scheduling of upper-class youth might underlie the high distress and substance use documented among them. This assumption was tested by considering suburban 8th graders' involvement in different activities along with their perceptions of parental attitudes toward achievement. Results indicated negligible evidence for deleterious effects of high extracurricular in...