Posted by alexandra_k on September 13, 2006, at 23:21:48
In reply to Re: internet and the manufacture of madness... » Estella, posted by Jost on September 13, 2006, at 22:00:07
> Did you mean Szasz?
> as in Dr. Thomas Szasz?yes indeedie do. he has been given an unnecessarily hard time imho. if you can access the above articles (which i guess you can) then i'll hunt down an article by Szasz which is fairly short so you can see what i'm saying if you like. i mean i disagree with some of his assumptions, but he isn't a raving loonie. he makes some very good points.
> also-- did you read the comments?yes i did.
> Is the original article there?first link is the original article.
second link takes you to the table of contents for that edition of the journal.
there are three responses / commentaries. well... two responses and one response to the response.> I read the first comment-- wow that guy needs an editor-- real bad.
lol. yeah i agree. thats why i said 'where do they find these people'? generally it is quite a good journal (imo) so that article surprised me greatly.
> He makes the original article sound pretty awful-- although I don't see how the internet plays into what he talked about.
yeah. though... i think in many respects the original article was pretty awful...
> I'll have to read more later-- but sounds fairly pernicious to me, at first glance. Not the internet part, but the part about there being "facts" about autonomy that are similar to facts about doing a high jump-- if you think the facts are calculable concrete details like "strength of one's legs" and "height of the jump"--i guess i'll have to read it again... i don't remember that part. i was browsing looking for something else but hit upon that. i'm more interested in the taxonomy debate and whether the notion of dysfunction / disability / illness is objective or essentially involves a value judgement.
> and also their analogy between the kind of automony that they're talking about and some type of moral or philsophical concept of autonomy. Iie according to the comment)i don't remember that either...
did sound a little like they thought that patient autonomy was a bad thing, however. see what happens? the loonies get ahold of the internet and congregate making themselves worse...
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