pseudomedical

Speaking generally, I think that the medicalization of everyday life, and the inability of many people in our culture to talk about any of the things that are most important to us without first running them through a quasi-medical set of diagnostic categories, is a very serious cultural problem, closely intertwined both with many cultural forms of authoritarianism and with the ever-lengthening grasp of the therapeutic State, and that that kind of pseudomedical rhetoric is something that anarchists and left-libertarians ought to be challenging as strenuously as possible.

Medicated madness 2008

An extra 5 points for a pseudomedical qualification such as homeopathy or holistic massage.

Archive 2006-11-01 Christopher O'Brien 2006

An extra 5 points for a pseudomedical qualification such as homeopathy or holistic massage.

The Evolution Crackpot Index Christopher O'Brien 2006

We also see your appearing at conventions of pseudomedical pseudoprofessional organizations as giving undue credibility to unfeasible and dangerous claims.

Health Care Renewal 2010

Must every anti-social tendency, every species of idiocy, every flavor of unreasoning hatred be reduced to a pseudomedical psychiatric label?

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run 2009

Must every anti-social tendency, every species of idiocy, every flavor of unreasoning hatred be reduced to a pseudomedical psychiatric label?

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run 2009

***’Historically, European cuisine had promoted the pseudomedical belief that particular seasonings and modes of preparation could — and should — eliminate imbalances in the human constitution.

A Dance to the Music of Life 2008

***’Historically, European cuisine had promoted the pseudomedical belief that particular seasonings and modes of preparation could — and should — eliminate imbalances in the human constitution.

2008 November « A Dance to the Music of Life 2008