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How Liberals Justify Torture

19. June 2011

Just because medical professionals are asked to assist with torture does not transform the torture victim into a patient and the torture chamber into a medical consulting room.

Madness, Power and the Media

3. January 2011

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Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.

Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness

31. October 2009

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America has the worst health statistics in the industrialized world because it is the most unequal society in the industrialized world. Social inequality affects the health of populations even more than access to medical care.

A Social Definition of Class

1. June 2008

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A social definition of class explains why the capitalist class will never put people first, why the middle class will always try to contain the forces of rebellion, and why only the working class has the numbers, the power and the motivation to replace capitalism with an egalitarian socialist society

Mental Illness or Social Sickness?

18. May 2008

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A society based on exploitation and oppression must portray its victims and rebels as sick or deviant. Instead of correcting the social sources of sickness, psychiatry extracts the individual from society, splits the brain from the body, severs the mind from the brain and drugs the brain.