A positive psychology of cancer challenges the conventional emphasis on the trauma and long-term negative psychological consequences of a dread, devastating disease [ 9] with the view that many, perhaps most persons diagnosed with cancer find benefits and positive meaning in the experience and even grow psychologically [ 10].
The consequences of eviction are devastating and have a profound, negative, and life-long impact on subsequent trajectories: worse housing, more eviction, and homelessness, all disproportionately affecting women of color with children ("a female equivalent of mass incarceration," Desmond argued at a talk at the University of Pennsylvania this week).
As Joe Nocera notes, everyone knows the consequences of devastating football injuries on adults and children — except the children, many of whom are under 9.
Finally, and sadly, what do we know about the consequences of devastating colonial degradation, code word for imposing European disease, military operations, forced religious conversion and environmental damage?
In contrast, FIPV is rare, but the consequences of infection are devastating.
During the early years of the HIV epidemic, the cognitive and functional consequences of HIV were devastating for patients and their families [ 2].
The consequences of blindness are devastating and wide-ranging on both the individual affected and society, leading to problems such as unemployment in the young and social dependency of the elderly [ 3].
"What happens in the automotive industry affects each and every one of us," a General Motors Web site declares, warning that the consequences of a shutdown would be "devastating".
Why do we leave technology development, risk assessment, back-up alternatives and training exclusively to the private sector, when, as we have seen, the consequences of a major leak are devastating to our environment as well as to our prestige as a nation?
