I can think of conditions like hyperactivity, and more recently shyness (social phobia) off the top of my head.
Homosexuality was defined as a disease for many years, after people had begun to stop defining it as a sin.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
---------- Original Message ---------- From: Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:22:12 -0800 (PST)
What are you thinking of? Everything I can think of off the top of my head was always seen as a disease, just as untreatable or poorly treatable. It's not like anybody thought leprosy was normal. Then on the other hand there is the religious tradition that sees age and death as unnatural, since God's intention was for human beings to be immortal.
----- Original Message ---- From: "farmelantj at juno.com" <farmelantj at juno.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Fri, March 5, 2010 11:08:21 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist
Haven't we been doing something like that as medical science progresses. A lot of physical conditions that used to be accepted as a normal part of the human condition have, for better or worse, gotten redefined as diseases, especially when medical science seemed to offer possible treatments to alleviate them (whether efficacious or not).
This is especially true in psychiatry.
Jim Farmelant http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
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