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Madness, Power and the Media
Author Stephen Harper explains how media images of madness and mental distress reflect and reinforce the unequal social relations of capitalism.
Continue reading...In Palestine, not even the birds are free
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
by Patricia Campbell -- Two weeks before our medical conference was scheduled to begin in Gaza, Israel denied entry visas to all the foreign delegates who had been invited to participate.
Continue reading...Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Human beings protest their oppression with open rebellion and through symptoms of sickness and distress. The prison system crushes the rebels, medicine treats the sick, and psychiatry subordinates the distressed. The effect of psychiatric “treatment” is to resign the discontented to their lot and drug the resisters into submission.
Continue reading...Health Care or Damage Control?
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Capitalism cannot deliver genuine health care. A real health-care system would oppose profitable practices like hazardous work, adulterated food, industrial pollution and wars of acquisition. Putting health first requires a fundamentally different social system.
Continue reading...The Myth of Scarcity
Friday, January 1, 1999
The myth of scarcity is used to limit majority access to medical and social services. In reality, society has more than enough resources to meet human needs.
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness? (21)
- Mothers Betrayed (16)
- The Virginia Tech Massacre: Cho Seung-Hui Delivers his Message (12)
- How Capitalism Turns Intimate Relationships into a Battleground (11)
- Inequality: The Root Source of Sickness (8)
- America in Crisis: The Liberal Challenge and the Prospects for Socialism (7)
- The Infinite Potential of the Human Mind (7)
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics? (7)
- War in the House of Labor (6)
- POWER and Powerlessness (5)
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- The Lessons of Chile: 1970-1973
- Solidarity Divided: A Return to Class Politics?
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- Mental Illness or Social Sickness?
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- Striking Flint: Genora (Johnson) Dollinger Remembers the 1936-37 General Motors Sit-Down Strike
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