Sublime

Liberals cannot quite bring themselves to support state regulation of the soul. (Indeed, by “family values,” they mean not sexual morality but subsidized child care and a living wage.) So they have come up with their own alternative: not care for the soul but care for the body. Health is their religion, the body their temple.

Critical writers in law, as well as in social science, have drawn attention to the ways the dominant society racializes different minority groups at different times, in response to shifting needs such as the labor market. At one period, for example, society may have had little use for blacks but much need for Mexican or Japanese agricultural worker

Aujourd’hui principalement mobilisés contre celles et ceux inculpés de crime, et donc passibles de la cour d’assises, ces examens psychiatriques ont été largement mobilisés en France durant toutes les décennies 1960 et 1970 : ils ont ainsi touché tout autant l’extrême droite ou l’extrême gauche que les mouvements indépendantistes, du membre de l’OA

The medical uncertainty compounds patients’ own uncertainty.

As the number of neighborhood health centers grew, their newfound visibility drew criticism from mainstream medicine.

But DSM-5 seemed to be moving in just the wrong direction, adding new diagnoses that would turn everyday anxiety, eccentricity, forgetting, and bad eating habits into mental disorders.

In 1906, George Bernard Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma first appeared on the London stage. The play concerns a physician, Sir Colenso Ridgeon, who’s discovered a cure for tuberculosis. Ridgeon’s dilemma is that he has a limited supply of the medication and a small staff to administer it. He can treat only ten patients at a time and so must decide whos

obtuse.