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By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.
Punishment. - A strange thing, our punishment! It does not cleanse the criminal, it is no atonement; on the contrary, it pollutes worse than the crime does. The
This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.
Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws.
It seemed that the pain of their physical illness at times was less than the misery of their poverty ridden existence, the unending wait in the queues and the feeling of hopelessness and abandonment by your own system was enough to rob them of their will power to fight any disease.
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.
I proceed, gentlemen, to call your attention to the present state of insane persons confined within the commonwealth; in cages, closets, cellars, stalls, pens; chained, naked, beaten with rods, and lashed into obedience.
For extreme illnesses extreme treatments are most fitting.
Psychotherapy is largely concerned with the debilitating or anti-social consequences of past punishments.
It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen
Pills for sickness;
books for ignorance.
I know that without treatment I would not have never been able to harness my creativity in such a successful way.
The degradation which characterizes the state into which you plunge him by punishing him pleases, amuses, and delights him. Deep down he enjoys having gone so far as to deserve being treated in such a way.
People imprison themselves.
I mention a paradox of psychiatry: mental illness is recognized by the patient's distorted thoughts, but treatment is largely indifferent to their content. (104)
Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means.
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
An eye for an eye.Eye-- Belle Aurora
suppressed hysteria.
The mad were put in asylums, but the sane are worse off in their offices.
He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?
Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift; Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health.
We knew that in general the quality of treatment we received in the training class varied inversely with the desirability of the job held by the speaker. In this there was a lesson: To get the best job, you had to weather the most abuse.
One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.
Ill-nature is a sort of running sore of the disposition.
Parsons argued that medicine was a social institution that regulated social deviance through the provision of medical diagnoses for nonconforming behavior. Medicine was, in this understanding, engaged in social control.
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn, the disgust, and even the self-hatred and sense of guilt that crime logically should produce but actually does not.
The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.
You have to be ill if you want to get better.Ill-- Colin Firth
Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.
Patient is a persistent act.
The record in the Federal Court discloses that (the NCI) took sides and sought in every way to hinder, suppress and restrict ... (a) treatment of cancer.
Why treat people only to send them back to the conditions that made them sick in the first place?
Death is not treatment, even if it's medically facilitated.
Unsettling and Troubling Symptoms.
subjection to conditions of life which, by lack of proper housing, clothing, food, hygiene and medical care, or excessive work or physical exertion are likely to result in the debilitation or death of the individuals; or
Medicine for the soul.
Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Want and sickness are too common in many stations of life to deserve more notice than is usually bestowed on the most ordinary vicissitudes of human nature.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom from responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.
Done to death by slanderous tongue
I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly.
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.
You know how some people complain about the way carriage horses are treated? That they are in a small stall? That is mistreatment. In a holding cell, you get very bored. You have no newspapers, you have no anything.
Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study.
For some persons the remedy should be merely prescribed; in the case of others, it should be forced down their throats.
Every era casts illness in its own image. Society, like the ultimate psychosomatic patient, matches its medical afflictions to its psychological crises; when a disease touches such a visceral chord, it is often because that chord is already resonating.
There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.
Art is a kind of illness.
Punishment also includes judgmental labeling and the withholding of privileges.
There is no reason why an individual, who has the misfortune to become insane, should, on that account, be deprived of any comfort or even luxury...
Pain demands to be felt.
A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.
It's an ill councell that hath no escape.
Medicine may be defined as the art or the science of keeping a patient quiet with frivolous reasons for his illness and amusing him with remedies good or bad until nature kills him or cures him.
The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.
Distress is a disease of the mind.
People are locked up in all sorts of ways.
In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients' "ease" but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients' dis-ease.
When someone gets sick, it is easy to get walked all over, walk all over people, and be so beat down you agree to things you would never normally agree to.
There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get.
What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
MEDICINE, n. A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Any treatment of an illness that does not also minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient.
I later spent ... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.
Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.
When treatment for health issues is conducted like a military operation, our body-minds become a battlefield.
Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.
The new experience that has replaced dignified suffering is artificially prolonged, opaque, depersonalized maintenance.
It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.
Physical diseases, engendered in the vices and neglects of men, will seize on victims of all degrees; and the frightful moral disorder, born of unspeakable suffering, intolerable oppression, and heartless indifference, smote equally without distinction.
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.
He was a patient with a diagnosis that he couldn't understand.
Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Tis base to plead the unhappy prisoner's cause,
With eloquence that's bought.
We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease,
Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse
Law merely indicated the sickness; grace brought about the cure.
Every patient clings to fantasies in which he sees himself in the active role so as to escape the pain of being defenseless and helpless. To achieve this he will accept guilt feelings, although they bind him to neurosis.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.
Sick unto death, I think they call it
the punishment inflicted for these peccadilloes.
They wish to make a medical thing of evil. Madness is also such a useful metaphor, for that which we would rather not face...
If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.
Hunger and cold, ill-health and pain are nothing. They pass. The thing that remains is ignorant criticism, well-meaning but futile advice, the contempt of a subordinate, the feelings of the underdog.
Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness
We take refuge in illness and then are trapped there.
Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.
Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
For a desperate disease a desperate cure.
If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
Organized medicine quickly adopted the stance that his alleged "cures" fell into three categories: those who never had cancer in the first place; those who were cured by prior radiation and surgery; and those who died. When Healing Becomes a Crime