You are right so he did :)
Larry
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> Martens
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> Subject: Re: The ADHD FRAUD: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal
> Children
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> I think Foucault actually said that all ideas are dangerous....and that
> power is relational, so there is always the possibility of resistance. The
> medical gaze is just one idea that exercises power....it is through
> naturalizing ways of thinking that bio-medicine can hide its mechanisms of
> power and through forums such as this those naturalizations can be exposed
> as entirely 'un-natural' ...that is constructed for a purpose. This is not
> to say however, that our response to these mechanisms of power
> are any less
> dangerous or don't attempt to naturalize their mechanisms as
> well...what is
> needed is constant critical attention to the discourses that are
> created to
> surround people and an awareness that every person coming to the
> relationship has an agenda...
>
> Christina Martens
>
>
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