"We know that when people first hear about these issues they experience the "yuck factor" — they react with horror," said Margaret Somerville, director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics & Law at McGill University in Montreal.
—John Greenwood, "Of Men and Mice: Human re-engineering is just over the horizon," The Financial Post, July 25, 1998

These are lines from a poem by Nancy Becker Kennedy. The last line is the title of what its creators call a musical-theater documentary that focuses on seven women with physical disabilities who talk about their lives. One of the first things she confronted in making the documentary, says Victoria Hochberg, the director, was ''the yuck factor,'' the reaction that could cause viewers to say: ''Yuck, I don't want to look at several cripple women.'' Miss Hochberg adds: ''Our whole approach was to deal with that discomfort by immediately speaking about it.''
—C. Gerald Fraser, "China's Many Faces," The New York Times, December 4, 1983