I'm almost done my paper on mental illness and feminist disability theory!

[mairceridwen]

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!

okay, this should have been one of the easiest papers to write...not because it's an easy topic, but because it's a position paper/literature review and I didn't have to come up with an argument or do any extra research. Anyway, the paper just wouldn't happen in one sitting and it's taken me forever but I am going to finish it TONIGHT. Then all I have to do is grade my students papers, clean my apartment, drive 10 hours to Columbus Ohio to see A. and play Morrowind for days at a time!!!


You wanna see my outline...you know you wanna:

I. Introduction
II. Summaries
a. Donaldson
b. Nicki
III. Concerns
a. Biological/Social Relation
i. Summaries of how each article approaches bio/social
ii. Sass answer to Donaldson, compatibility
iii. Introduce boundaries, Kleinman as a way to blur them. Strengthen bio-social relationship, more detailed
b. Failure…medical models
i. Fem dis studies…DSM III, Kleinman illuminates this
ii. Sass
iii. Kleinman’s analysis
c. Ability to illuminate experience
i. Donaldson’s irony
ii. Nicki, highly concerned with experience, does not examine the social structure of the healing process and how experience is validated, where alternative moralities can be drawn from. Kleinman does all of this.
IV. Potential
a. Relevance of the literary
i. Problem was not with analysis, but of how such analysis limited goals.
ii. Literary very relevant, Kleinman opens up many spaces.
b. Politics
i. Donaldson, politics relies on a secure medical model, but as Kleinman illustrates this model is not secure with respect to experience.
ii. Nicki, (also Donaldson) divorces politics from illness experience. Both fail to consider political impact of healing systems. Kleinman
V. Conclusions

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. The brain is an organ. It requires a specific chemical soup in which

to function. Processed food for some people cannot, will not provide this milieu of chemicals needed.

Find answers here ----> www.orthomed.org

or better yet -----> www.hriptc.org

I know this wasn't asked for... but what the heck... loved your outline.... btw.

[mairceridwen]

2. very interesting

If I were doing research those would be very helpful, but essentially I am just reading two articles by the aforementioned Donaldson and Nicki who take different feminist approaches to disability and mental illness drawing from the humanities (literature and philosophy respectively) and putting them in critical dialoge with Arthur Kleinman, specifically his book *Rethinking Psychiatry: From Social Category to Personal Experience* which is one of the best books I've read in a long time on the topic. It's really helped me craft an answer to Donaldson's article which pissed me off to no end.

Anyway, it's not going to be a very good paper, but hopefully the start of something I can develop later.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Sometimes I think that most of the sane people are locked up in asylums...

and sometimes I think that psychiatry is a tool. Other times I feel that most of the nutcases have achieved a political office.

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We did some checking on Gary Null's work

Posted By: Angels of the Airwaves (152.163.100.69)
Date: Sunday, 5 December 2004, at 8:53 p.m.
We decided to do some homework. We visited Gary Null's archives. We never knew he had done so many shows. More significantly, we were not fully informed as to how many major movements he either spearheaded or supported. He has done more programs on women's health issues than anyone else on radio, somewhere around 500. He led the effort to end the use of DES, he was instrumental in the banning of DDT, the removal of MSG in baby foods, and was the main voice on the radio working with Dr. Michael Jacobson at the Center for Public Science and public interest in the banning of sulfites. He led the media effort on radio to challenge the Dalkon shield plus the copper coil, plus since the beginning of synthetic hormone replacement therapy he led the challenge against using them.

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