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Speech pathologists ponder ethical aspects of their profession, pivoting on a now classic 1939 study by Mary Tudor to test Wendell Johnson's diagnosogenic theory of stuttering. By using verbal labeling on stuttering and fluent children from an Iowa orphanage, they claimed to be able to induce stuttering in normally fluent children, thus supporting the hypothesis and raising serious ethical concerns that still reverberate in science and the media. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)