Physicians have a right to shun practices they judge immoral, but they have no right to withhold important information from their patients.
Some physicians and dentists express concern that if it is discovered that they treat patients with AIDS, then those patients who don't have HIV may shun their practice.
In Madagascar, when people get sick, they generally consult people like Dadafara, although wealthier citizens refer to them as witch doctors and shun their practice.
Despite the passage of a national law on early childhood care and development, many parents still shun the practice of early learning stimulation whether through formal or non-formal structures.
Mr. Davis, the church's current spokesman, said Scientologists are no different from Mormons, Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses and Amish who practice shunning or excommunication.
Community members were also likely to shun VHTs who they did not trust because of undesired behaviors like heavy drinking and suspected practicing of witchcraft.
Unlike most other Chinese before the 20th century, they shunned such practices as foot binding.
Zulus have traditionally shunned the practice because it would keep them away from the battlefield that called the warrior tribe.
He has previously shunned the practice, forcing reporters to ask questions about his campaign at formal City Hall press briefings.
The federal Department of Agriculture, which finances the food stamp program, has concluded that fingerprinting is unnecessary, and other states, except Arizona, have shunned the practice.
"Intervention, Hailed as a Concept, Is Shunned in Practice" (Diplomatic Memo, Jan . 20 rightly points out that Darfur is a test of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1674, which commits the nations of the world to intervene to protect civilians facing mass atrocities.
