Divisions among the "Disabled"; Footnote to Marta Russell

[Carrol Cox]

Her broader argument--that a disease can be real even if its
> origin is psychological--is one I would expect disability advocates to
> embrace.

There are social symptoms; there are social responses; there are
multitudinous smaller and larger disfunctions of the brain generated by
multitudinous complexes of causes -- social, genetic, traumatic; one could
fill a several hundred pages listing various causes and complications of
the human organism. One not only could do that without using the term
"psychological" or any synonym but one had damn well better do it if one
is to keep either one's medical or one's social thought coherent.

Carrol

The term "hysteria" is as outmoded as spontaneous combustin.