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Mental ability and the Discourse of Disease – another comment on a Globe & Mail article on “Treating the Brain and the Immune System in Tandem”

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Again, the suggestion that mental illness – an umbrella term under which autism has also been thrust – is discussed in terms of biological disease. Says the Globe & Mail this morning: “It probably brings us closer to hammering in the Read More...

Read the complete post at http://www.esteeklar.com/2015/01/19/mental-ability-discourse-disease-another-comment-globe-mail-article-treating-brain-immune-system-tandem/

Posted Jan 19 2015, 08:36 AM by Estée Klar

Filed under: Inclusion, Ethics, Discrimination, Research, Media, Disability History, The Autism Genome Project, Newgenics, Critical Disability Theory, NEugenics, Science, Identity, What is Disability?, Intelligence, Accessibility, Eugenics, Institutionalization

Mental ability and the Discourse of Disease – another comment on a Globe & Mail article on “Treating the Brain and the Immune System in Tandem”

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