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Record 1 2015-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Human Diseases
CONT

Death by sleep deprivation is not unique to rats. Fatal familial insomnia, first described about 30 years ago, is, as the name suggests, a heritable human disorder that leads first to unremitting insomnia and thence to death.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Maladies humaines
CONT

Les prions, agents infectieux non conventionnels, sont responsables de maladies dégénératives du système nerveux (encéphalopathie spongiforme bovine, maladie de Creutzfeldt-Jakob, kuru, insomnie familiale fatale...)

Spanish

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Record 2 2007-05-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Phobias
  • Environment
CONT

Ecophobia -- a fear of ecological problems and the natural world -- is a fear of oil spills, rainforest destruction, whale hunting, acid rain, the ozone hole, and Lyme disease [and sometimes the fear of just being outside].

CONT

This summer's record-busting hot spell... has aroused an extraordinary response.... Many Americans have found themselves concerned... about the whole bruised and abused human habitat. Soggy, unremitting heat sometimes seemed a symptom of general ecological collapse.... Ecophobia, as the mood might be called, has not been induced by the hot spell alone.... The combination of heat and pollution gave a "sense of foreboding"... [and provoked] apprehensions about ecological dangers.... Ecophobia... is not likely to disappear... [because] there is sufficient cause for fear about almost every aspect of the human environment.

OBS

Briefly, "ecophobia" is an irrational (often hysterical) and groundless hatred of the natural world, or aspects of it. Such fear of the agency of Nature plays out in many spheres. The personal hygiene industry relies on it, since capital-driven notions about personal cleanliness assign us preference for perfumes (for some more than others) over natural bodily odors; the cosmetic industry (in its passion for covering up Nature’s "flaws" and "blemishes") uses it; beauticians and barbers (in their military passion for cutting back natural growths) are sustained by it; city sanitation boards display it in their demands that residents keep grass short to prevent the introduction of "vermin" and "pests" into urban areas; landscaped gardens, trimmed poodles in women’s handbags on the Seoul subway system -- anything that amputates or seeks to amputate the agency of Nature and to assert a human order on a system that follows different orders is, in essence, ecophobic. Ecophobia is a subtle thing that takes many forms.

OBS

environmental phobia: This term seems to have a more restricted sense, that of the fear of environmental poisons, or is often used in the expression "situational-environmental phobia".

French

Domaine(s)
  • Phobies
  • Environnement
DEF

Peur des milieux naturels.

CONT

[Les études des] effets des facteurs environnementaux sur la santé [constituent un] sujet [...] sensible [qui] sort du champ purement scientifique : il comporte des enjeux en termes d'écologie, de politique de santé et de politique, générale; une divulgation trop rapide de données scientifiques risque d'augmenter l'angoisse environnementale [...]

OBS

écophobie : Le mot «phobie» englobe la crainte maladive, la répugnance, la peur, le dégoût, l'horreur (p. ex. : «zoophobie», peur morbide de certains animaux). Il faut que le premier élément du terme représente l'objet de cette crainte ou de cette répugnance. «Éco» est ambigu : il peut vouloir dire «écologie» (habitat, environnement) ou «économie». Par exemple, nous avons relevé le terme «écophobie» dans le sens de la haine de l'écologie ou des préoccupations environnementales (aussi «écolophobie»), de la peur d'être chez soi (aussi «domophobie»), de l'aversion pour les questions touchant l'économie (aussi «éconophobie»), mais non dans le sens de la peur des milieux naturels qui fait l'objet de la présente fiche. Les termes anglais «ecophobia» et français «écophobie» semblent être souvent de faux-amis.

Spanish

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Record 3 2006-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Psychology (General)
  • Special Education

French

Domaine(s)
  • Psychologie (Généralités)
  • Éducation spéciale

Spanish

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Record 4 1995-10-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • Nervous System
CONT

For Tay-Sachs disease, an unremitting and severe disorder in which children are born dying, prenatal testing is generally accepted.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Système nerveux

Spanish

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Record 5 1995-10-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Security

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sécurité

Spanish

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Record 6 1986-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue
OBS

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Spanish

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