Awareness of Medical Conditions
Green ribbons are used to create awareness for many medical conditions, including:
- Bipolar Disorder
- Celiac Disease
- Scoliosis
- Cerebral Palsy
- Depression (specifically childhood depression)
- Gastroparesis
- Hemochromatosis
- Kidney Cancer
- Lyme Disease
- Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (Lime Green)
- Mitochondrial Diseases
- Organ donation and Organ transplant
- P.A.N.D.A.S.
- Tourette Syndrome
- Tracheal Williamsburg Disease
- Stuttering (sea green)
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Famous quotes containing the words awareness of, awareness, medical and/or conditions:
“Awareness of the stars and their light pervades the Koran, which reflects the brightness of the heavenly bodies in many verses. The blossoming of mathematics and astronomy was a natural consequence of this awareness. Understanding the cosmos and the movements of the stars means understanding the marvels created by Allah. There would be no persecuted Galileo in Islam, because Islam, unlike Christianity, did not force people to believe in a “fixed” heaven.”
—Fatima Mernissi, Moroccan sociologist. Islam and Democracy, ch. 9, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. (Trans. 1992)
“The toddler’s wish to please ... is a powerful aid in helping the child to develop a social awareness and, eventually, a moral conscience. The child’s love for the parent is so strong that it causes him to change his behavior: to refrain from hitting and biting, to share toys with a peer, to become toilet trained. This wish for approval is the parent’s most reliable ally in the process of socializing the child.”
—Alicia F. Lieberman (20th century)
“One fellow I was dating in medical school ... was a veterinarian and he wanted to get married. I said, but you’re going to be moving to Minneapolis, and he said, oh, you can quit and I’ll take care of you. I said, “Go.””
—Sylvia Beckman (b. c. 1931)
“We as a nation need to be reeducated about the necessary and sufficient conditions for making human beings human. We need to be reeducated not as parents—but as workers, neighbors, and friends; and as members of the organizations, committees, boards—and, especially, the informal networks that control our social institutions and thereby determine the conditions of life for our families and their children.”
—Urie Bronfenbrenner (b. 1917)