Perhaps the most illuminating example of the reduction of fear through understanding is derived from our increased knowledge of the nature of disease.

Identifying alcoholism is difficult for the individual afflicted because of the social stigma associated with the disease that causes people with alcoholism to avoid diagnosis and treatment for fear of shame or social consequences.

In influenza epidemics, some churches suspend the giving of communion under the form of wine, for fear of spreading the disease.

In addition, there is always the fear that the viral vector, once inside the patient, may recover its ability to cause disease.

She commented on the disease: " Like many women, I assumed heart disease was a man's disease and cancer was what we would fear the most.

The 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica claimed this was due to native fear of foreign disease.

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

Psychotherapy is highly recommended to women diagnosed with PID as the fear of redeveloping the disease after being cured may exist.

This procedure was historically done only prophylactically or with mastecomy for benign disease over fear of increased cancer development in retained areolar ductal tissue.

" Stasz writes that these were " code words for fear that was consorting with prostitutes and might bring home venereal disease.

A broader understanding of biosecurity that is emerging under threat of biological warfare, and the fear that such economically devastating events as the mad cow disease epidemic could recur, either deliberately ( as an act of bioterrorism ) or by accident due to unrestricted imports, is causing some nations, notably New Zealand, to adopt relatively harsh restrictions against imported organisms.

The infected have slowly overcome their disease until they can spend short periods of time in sunlight and are attempting to rebuild society ; but they fear and hate Neville who has destroyed some of their people along with the true vampires ( dead bodies animated by the germ ) during his daytime excursions against the latter.

Although Europeans were the market for slaves, Europeans rarely entered the interior of Africa, due to fear of disease and fierce African resistance.

East Kimberley cattle were infested with Boophilus ticks infected with a malaria-like parasitic disease called Babesiosis and were prohibited from being transported to southern markets by sea due to a fear that the ticks would survive the journey and spread.

Christian Scientists believe that sickness and disease are the result of fear, ignorance, or sin, and that they should be healed by prayer or introspection.

The very existence of the quarantine station on Stradbroke Island from 1850 to the 1870s led to the official discouragement of pastoralism or wider settlement for fear of spreading disease.

* Respect of animal well-being ( freedom from hunger and thirst ; freedom from discomfort ; freedom from pain, injury or disease ; freedom to express normal behavior ; and freedom from fear and distress )

Also, there are other aspects of animal welfare to be considered-such as freedom from hunger, thirst, discomfort, injury, fear, distress, disease and pain.

Such factors that would be intentionally ignored include: the relative change in price of substitute goods, ( e. g., the price of beef vs pork or lamb ); the level of risk aversion among buyers ( e. g., fear of mad cow disease ); and the level of overall demand for a good regardless of its current price level ( e. g., a societal shift toward vegetarianism ).

Simeon Ecuyer, the Swiss-born British officer in command, wrote that " We are so crowded in the fort that I fear disease …; the smallpox is among us.

The slight flutter that had disturbed the motion of her heart when she entered the forest was gone now, and even the dim groves of trees through which she occasionally passed did not reawaken her fear.

And he knew that the men talked about him behind his back, saying that he was one up on everybody else -- including the pilot of the plane with the swastika on it -- because he was chemically incapable of fear.

I fled, however, not from what might have been the natural fear of being unable to disguise from you that the things about my bridegroom -- in the sense you meant the word `` things '' -- which you had been galvanizing yourself to tell me as a painful part of your maternal duty were things which I had already insisted upon finding out for myself ( despite, I may now say, the unspeakable awkwardness of making the discovery on principle, yes, on principle, and in cold blood ) because I was resolved, as a modern woman, not to be a mollycoddle waiting for Life but to seize Life by the throat.

What I fled from was my fear of what, unwittingly, you might betray, without meaning to, about my father and yourself.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

It was this fear which explained the development of a priestly caste whose function in society was to mollify and appease the angry deities.

The work for Commonweal was more satisfying than work for Commentary `` because of the staff's tiptoeing fear of making a booboo ''.

President Kennedy was right when he said, `` We shall never negotiate out of fear and we never shall fear to negotiate ''.

and I know that I, myself, was nauseated with apprehension and fear and that my hands were soaking wet where they held my gun.

They marched with bayonets fixed, and as fixed on their faces was anger, fear, and torment.

The result, dramatically visible in a matter of days in the family's disrupted daily functioning, was a phobic-like fear that some terrible harm would befall the second twin, whose birth had not been anticipated.

Word reached the company that the man behind these depredations was Manuel Gonzales, a man with many followers, including a number who were kept in line through fear of him.

It was only after we had responded, with what I fear were similar cliches, that she went into action by questioning our desire for friendship and understanding with a challenge about aggressive and warlike actions by the U.S. Government in Cuba and Laos.

Not through fear of disobeying orders, as Eichmann kept trying to explain, but through a peculiar giddiness that began in a half-acceptance of the vicious absurdities contained in the Nazi interpretation of history and grew with each of Hitler's victories into a permanent light-mindedness and sense of magical rightness that was able to respond to any proposal, and the more outrageous the better, `` Well, let's try it ''.

She had skipped her lunch hour in the fear that he might call while she was out.

But her walk was too steady, too slow, telegraphing her fear.

Mostly, it was fear, but this woman's voice didn't tremble and her hands were still on the coverlet.

I was afraid to look for fear the evil might still be going on.

While Kierkegaard's feeling of angst is fear of actual responsibility to God, in modern use, angst was broadened by the later existentialists to include general frustration associated with the conflict between actual responsibilities to self, one's principles, and others ( possibly including God ).

In Art and Artist ( 1932 ), the psychologist Otto Rank wrote that the psychological trauma of birth was the pre-eminent human symbol of existential anxiety and encompasses the creative person's simultaneous fear of – and desire for – separation, individuation and differentiation.

While the growing business helps the economy, resident groups fear that the area will lose its current character, as many businesses are opening in formerly residential buildings, with questionable legal basis.

In modern times, opinions differ, although the principle stays the same: Whereas one would formerly engage in a Mensur to be hit, many fencing students of today will rather engage in combat in order to prove their competence by not being wounded, instead focusing on reinforcing the bond to one's brothers by sharing hope and fear.

The editorial, whose name is a pun on an old Czech saying, witch roughly translates to: so long we go to the water with a mug, until the handle breaks off, is centered around the publication of Sin City by the Crew publishing company, witch it formerly hesitated to do, stating that its members fear that the book would never sell good enough on the small Czech market to cover for its publication expenses. It also promises the publication of manga, Adam Warrens Dirty Pair.