[lbo-talk] The epidemic of mental illness

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 10:39:51 PDT 2011


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:


>
> On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:38 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
> > Fascinating article about mental illness and psychoactive drugs.
> >
> >
> http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/jun/23/epidemic-mental-illness-why/?page=1
>
> Yes. But what about the possibility that the rise in the frequency of
> mental illness is socially produced - by alienation and stress?
>
> Doug
>

Not wholly dismissing the position in the article but... Come now, Doug... society reflects biology (impacted by commodified chemicals in this case) not the other way around! Yeesh, what have you been doing with your time, reading people like Lewontin? Communist. ;-)



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