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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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Larry Arnold
Sent: 30 September 2006 09:42
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Subject: Re: The ADHD FRAUD: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal
Children
But $cientology is not an independant body, it is a cult invented by a
science fiction writer who grew rich from its fraudulent claims.
As for deconstructing the medical gaze, I am quite busy doing that, it
surprises me therefore when from time to time you seem to be employing it.
Ultimately no disease of any type exists, they are all constructs of one
kind or another, however a construct can still kill you, war for instance
being one such example.
I am against misuse and over use of pysciatric pharmacology and I agree that
multinational drug companies are not much better at times than the spammers
who try and sell you viagra, however being against one thing does not mean
one should be for something else which is equally corrupt and exploits the
distrust that people legitimatly have with the pysciatric system.
Larry
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Colin REvell
> Sent: 30 September 2006 13:27
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: The ADHD FRAUD: How Psychiatry Makes "Patients" of Normal
> Children
>
>
> Mitzi ND OTHERS
>
> Has not all 'reseaarchers' not got hidden-agendas? What are their motives
> and drives?
> Do you really trust the multi national pharma companies to tell us the
> truth?
> Can we really trust the psychiatric and psychology discourses?
> As not psychiatry got close links with the multi-national pharma
> companies?
> Who funds their research and their drugs and therapies, like
> Ritalin, Prozac
> etc?
>
> I HAVE ALWAYS CAMPAIGNED FOR AN 'INDEPENDENT' RESEARCH BODY IN
> THIS COUNTRY
> AND ACROSS THE WORLD WHICH IS NOT MOTIVATED BY 'MONEY AND GREED' AND 'WE'
> CAN ALL RE-LEARN TO 'TRUST' AND CAN REASSURE THE HUMAN RACE
>
> As Foucualt said, that we have to deconstruct all discourses that
> are under
> the 'medical-gaze'.
>
> Where is the 'real' POWER?
>
> Yours
>
> Colin
>
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