Tolerance and Illness: The Politics of Medical and Psychiatric Classification  

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Glackin, Shane Nicholas

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 35 no. 4 (Aug. 2010), page 449-465.
Topik: constructivism; Habermas; liberal; Szasz; value

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.23 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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In this paper, I explore the links between liberal political theory and the evaluative nature of medical classification, arguing for stronger recognition of those links in a liberal model of medical practice. All judgments of medical or psychiatric "dysfunction," I argue, are fundamentally evaluative, reflecting our collective willingness or reluctance to tolerate and/or accommodate the conditions in question. Illness, then, is "socially constructed." But the relativist worries that this loaded phrase evokes are unfounded; patients, doctors, and communities will agree in the vast majority of cases about values and ways of life that the institutions of the liberal state are designed to accommodate. I accordingly sketch a model of medical practice, based loosely on Jürgen Habermas's political theories, designed to maximize both our awareness and our understanding of these disputes.

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