Even for diseases in which it may protect individuals, isolation will often have little effect on the general epidemic; this may be, as in measles, because infectivity precedes the appearance of the characteristic feature, the rash, by a few days, or, as in polio virus infections, because a number of persons are carriers, harbouring the disease agent without discernible illness.
What individual isolation!
It is one's individual isolation — more than one's race or one's culture — that makes the tale worth telling.
Putnam had studied the breakdown of community and the increasing individual isolation that modern society engenders, most famously described in his 2000 book, "Bowling Alone".
For behavioural trials, fish are removed from their home tank and placed into individual isolation chambers for at least 1.5 h before the trial.
Grundtvig emphasized the light, joyous, celebratory and communal aspects of Christianity, whereas Kierkegaard emphasized seriousness, suffering, sin, guilt, and individual isolation.
Common examples of enacted stigma were instances of refusal to touch, hug, or shake hands with an HIV-positive individual, isolation behavior, or throwing away dishes or silverware used by the participant.
Unfortunately, individual isolation can be so corrosive that many youth don't recognize their own worth and contribution.
To embrace such a "law," to put it at the center of a moral philosophy or code of ethics, is to go through life scared, armed and unaware, in effect believing in nothing at all except our individual isolation.
Others wondered if Lépine's actions were the result of societal changes that had led to increased poverty, powerlessness, individual isolation or increased violence in the media and in society.
Others expressed a broader analysis, framing Lépine's actions as the result of societal changes that had led to increased poverty, powerlessness, individual isolation, and polarization between men and women.
