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asymmetric paternalism.
Jonah Lehrer • How We Decide
A cynic might conclude that preventive medicine exists to transform people into raw material for a profit-hungry medical-industrial complex.
Barbara Ehrenreich • Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
transforming medicine from a healing-oriented moral practice into a diagnosis-oriented science focused on discernible, and replicable, test results.
Meghan O'Rourke • The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness
HEALTH AND LIFE ARE UP; SICKNESS AND DEATH ARE DOWN
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
Dorian Deshauer, a psychiatrist and historian at the University of Toronto, told me, “Once you abandon the idea of the personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.”
Rachel Aviv • Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
For Hamer, the issue of involuntary sterilization was as urgent as that of police brutality and other manifestations of state-sanctioned violence.
Keisha N. Blain • Until I Am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
version that doesn’t assume that our opponents are intellectually or morally bankrupt.
Gary Gutting • What Philosophy Can Do
Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis: How Perspectives and Politics Replace Science in Mental Health
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Extremists are often following one another.