Mairin Schuman’s Reviews > The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, And The Human Condition > Status Update
Mairin Schuman
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“Relabeling alcoholism as an illness and child abuse as a symptom of family pathology are further examples of the widespread process of medicalization in Western societies, whereby problems previously labeled and managed as moral, religious, or criminal are redefined as disorder and dealt with through therapeutic technology.”
— May 02, 2026 12:54PM
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Mairin Schuman
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“Heart disease, like cancer, seems to implicate our very way of life: what we choose to eat, what we like to do. It points to the frenetic pace of an economy predicated on ever more rapid technological change and its accompaniment, disordered physiology.”
— Apr 29, 2026 07:40AM
Mairin Schuman
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“When chest pain is reduced to chronic coronary artery disease for which calcium blockers and nitroglycerine are prescribed, while the patient's fear, the family's frustration, the job conflict, the sexual impotence, and the financial crisis go undiagnosed and unaddressed, it is a failure.”
— Apr 18, 2026 06:42PM
