How political correctness is corrupting medicine

What makes us sick? Poison chemicals, vises, smoking. These and hundreds of other things. But what about modern medicine itself?. More and more, social activists, scholars, and even health professionals are telling us that the culture or medicine is to blame for many illnesses. No, they are not talk...

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Published inSociety (New Brunswick) Vol. 39; no. 4; pp. 7 - 10
Main Author Satel, Sally
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Springer Nature B.V 01.05.2002
Subjects
Activism
Affirmative action
Blame
Chemicals
Counseling
Critical incidents
Debate
Debates
Delivery Systems
Discrimination
Errors
Health care
Health care industry
Health Care Services
Health Care Services Policy
Health insurance
Illnesses
Inpatient care
Medical personnel
Medical treatment
Medicine
Mental health
Mental illness
Minority Groups
Multicultural counseling
Multiculturalism & pluralism
Oppression
Patients
Political Attitudes
Political correctness
Politics
Psychiatrists
Psychological needs
Public Health
Race
Racism
Responsibility
Sexual orientation
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smoking
Social factors
Social Justice
STD
Syphilis
Talking
Treatment needs
U.S.A
Womens Health Care
Worry
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Summary:What makes us sick? Poison chemicals, vises, smoking. These and hundreds of other things. But what about modern medicine itself?. More and more, social activists, scholars, and even health professionals are telling us that the culture or medicine is to blame for many illnesses. No, they are not talking about health insurance woes, fifteen-minute office visits, or medical mistakes. The common theme is the health profession's failure to make the connection between oppression--by society at large or by the medical establishment itself--and illness. It would be one thing if this were just a dry academic debate with no real-life consequences, But it is not. The critics are beginning to fashion a world of politically correct medicine. I began to worry about this in 1995 when I learned that some of my fellow psychiatrists at a San Francisco hospital were grouping inpatients according to race and sexual orientation so that they could organize treatment around psychological needs that were supposedly peculiar to those groups.
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ISSN:0147-2011
1936-4725
DOI:10.1007/BF02712631