HPS 0612 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Gender Binary, Physicalism, Baruch Spinoza
5 May 2016
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1. 5 hrs but have full time for it. Essays: use 2-3 thinkers (with at least 4 different thinkers in total) to answer the following: Discuss some of the ways in which the concepts of disease and health are socially constructed. Used as social explanation such as taking the blame off parents. Pharma, marketing and success which leads to mass deinstitutionalization of mental illness. Explain some of the ways that technology has impacted the concepts of health, disease, and medicine. Expert panels lead to accumulation of scientific knowledge. Different approaches to medicine depend heavily on the ontological commitments that are made. Kendell is a bit confusing he could be like spinoza or he could be a non-reductive physicalist or reductivist. Mental and physical are quantitatively different not qualitatively. People get sick not just mind and body. Find value free concept of health, function according to design.
