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What does calling something a disorder do? the case of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.
By Dena T. Smith This week’s Science Times reported that Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, (which causes the symptoms one might imagine, given the name of the condition) a set of symptoms with unidentified...
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Health 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...
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Illness or Deviance: A Contested Space Between Criminal Justice and Medicine
Foucault wrote that the nineteenth century ushered in a new way to inspect the body; recognizing that medical personnel had placed the patient under “perpetual examination” (1975). His interest,...
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Summer TV and Critical Disability Studies
Source: Wikimedia Commons Characters with “disabilities” are being more regularly depicted in entertainment media: The lead character of House suffers from chronic pain and walks with a limp; Glee has...
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