Weighing the blame for illness: biology versus personal responsibility
By Dena T. Smith Part of MSNBC’s lineup includes an hour-long daytime show hosted by the physician, Dr. Nancy. In a segment of her show on Monday, August 31st, she hosted a panel to address the “war on...
View ArticleComparing the role of government in self-control problems from behavioural...
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View ArticleCreating or Identifying Mental Illness: what American psychiatric definitions...
The New York Times Sunday Magazine featured an article (a preview of a book) by Ethan Watters about the globalization of American concepts of mental illness (linked below). In short, along with our...
View ArticleHealth insurance for millions more and the future of medicalization
A bill to extend health insurance to millions more Americans and to cut premiums and force coverage for pre-existing conditions for all Americans passed the house this week. President Obama will sign...
View ArticleGenes cannot be bought, but their testing certainly can be…
The recent uptick in genetic testing for a range of illnesses has prompted great debate in the medical community about how reliable and useful the testing is, as well as discussion among social...
View ArticleBlinded by narcissism?
In the Freudian Era, Narcissism was a central psychiatric concept and diagnosis. In the last several months, the likelihood that the American Psychiatric Association will drop this diagnosis from it’s...
View ArticleThe Sociology of Sickness: On Feeling Bad
Source: Claus Rebler via Flickr, CC-BY-SA 3.0 At the time in which I write this, I have been sick for eight days. I’ve gone through 5 boxes of tissues. Two packs of medicines. Had a fever. Called off a...
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