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931 Electroconvulsive Therapy (Re: coerced treatment) -- rank: 1000

Often these kind of "reports" are written by professionals who have conflicts of interest and push their preferred methods for career reasons. I don't know about Richard Glass but this statement is wrong: > As currently practiced, ECT > involves the use of informed consent, ultra-brief general anesthesia > and muscle relaxants ...... Electroshock is going on without informed consent. There is a case going on right now in New York -- Paul Henri Thomas is being forcefully shock ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 13 09:48:56 PDT 2001

932 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

Everyone takes their chances. And with the medical profession, just as with capitalists selling you something, you better know something about your condition. Otherwise you turn yourself over to someone in blind trust -- and I would not recommend that with all the horror stories I know about. The rich can be recommended to get ineffective and costly back surgery that leaves them worse off than before too you know. Marta Leslilake1 at aol.com wrote: > > I despise the "informed consume ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jun 13 09:32:00 PDT 2001

933 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

The car has the "right of way" unless one is in a crosswalk in most states. Marta Peter Kosenko wrote: > > Wotjek: > > Am I getting this right? Because the car is a socially constructed object, it has the right to run one down? > > Anyone care to comment about the "philosophy" of that? > > Peter Kosenko > > ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- > From: Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> > Reply-To: lbo-talk a ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 12 19:53:10 PDT 2001

934 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

We started out this thread with an article about a law in CA that was being contested because the ACLA and others believe that the alternative to jail for drug possession -- drug treatment -- was a form of state sponsored coercion. I agree with Glasser It will allow the state to define acceptable treatment rather than the individual to whom the treatment is being imposed upon. Now, a person who has a drug addiction (provided they have the means to pay for it) can choose to enter a treatment prog ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 12 19:05:17 PDT 2001

935 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

Well Wojtek walk in front of a car coming at you in traffic and see if you don't have the "right" to get out of the way. Why you will move out of the path of an oncoming car is because you know you will be harmed if you stay put. Similarly, a person can determine if a drug is harming them or not and stop taking it as long as society is not forcing them to take it by means of its institutions, one of them being the medical institution. Marta Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > > Individua ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 12 18:06:08 PDT 2001

936 coerced treatment -- rank: 1000

Dump bourgeiose theory for a moment. Not all help is *competent* help. Psychiatry is not a science. There are no blood tests for various mental conditions. Many people seeking help are prescribed medications that harm them, not help them. When the patient knows this and expresses it, their experience can be invalidated by a "know it all" psychiatrist. Anyone who has communication with those who have been in the trenches knows of instances where psychiatrists are WRONG with diagnos ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 12 15:35:26 PDT 2001

937 Decline of KPFK -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Whatever you think of Marc Cooper (and I like him), dullness and > quackery aren't among his faults. > > I would agree that Cooper is not dull -- but he does put people like Arianna Huffington and Pat Caddell in the spotlight by granting them frequent KPFK airtime -- a voice. He regularly invites mainstream pundits on his show. In my way of thinking KPFK is the only station where non-mainstream views get aired so to constantly give time to those who ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 12 15:20:27 PDT 2001

938 Decline of KPFK -- rank: 1000

More on Pacifica, specifically the decline of KPFK in Los Angeles which has turned into a station barely worth turning the the dial to. I used to listen to the KPFK news regularly -- no more though it is so awful, insulting compared to the previous incarnation. Mark Schubb and Marc Cooper dominate KPFK now and it has badly deteriorated. We now have ooga booga shows about spiritual healing, etc., little to no original news reporting (Frank Stoltz left a couple of years ago and the department di ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 12 09:02:13 PDT 2001

939 Hunting Captain Ahab: Psychological Warfare and the Melville Revival -- rank: 1000

As I recall Clare eventually was perceived to be too left and was kind of run out of KPFK by the liberal and moderate forces during one of the stations several incarnations. Lots of good shows and people have left there over the years I've been listening. The news is just awful -- just AWFUL these days. Clare was one of my favorites. Marta Michael Pugliese wrote: > > Clare Spark, an independent scholar, and former programmer at KPFK-FM, > the Pacifica station in Los Angeles during ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 5 21:11:25 PDT 2001

940 medicine conflicts of interest -- rank: 1000

Conflicts of interest are eroding public trust in medicine. Suspicions are raised about the integrity of Government health care recommendations--are they part of a commercial marketing campaign? The Boston Globe reports that the Government's recommendation about cholesterol-lowering drugs is being viewed with suspicion. " as doctors and pharmaceutical companies commingle in growing numbers, critics say, it becomes difficult to judge whether these and other recommendations are truly free of ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jun 1 23:43:43 PDT 2001

941 Ethical foundations of the left -- rank: 1000

Kelley wrote: > > At 04:07 AM 7/29/01 +0000, Justin Schwartz wrote: > > >As I say, I don't follow Rawls.\ > snip > valid norms are > morally binding because of their intimate connection with processes of > social interaction and communication out of which one cannot easily (or > even rationally) choose to step (1983: 109). On valid "norms" --- These ethical conceptual frameworks have no place for disabled people as on a par with other human beings. I don ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jul 30 20:58:36 PDT 2001

942 Social Model of Disablement -- rank: 1000

Leo and all, This is an explanation of the social model of disablement. Maybe this well help clarify your concerns. Marta The origins of what would later be called the ‘social model’ can be traced to an essay by a disabled Briton: A Critical Condition, written by Paul Hunt and published in 1966. In this paper, Hunt argued that because people with impairments are viewed as ‘unfortunate, useless, different, oppressed and sick’ they pose a direct challenge to commonly held Western values Accordi ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jul 30 16:00:29 PDT 2001

943 The Natural and Social Body [was: The History of Disability] -- rank: 1000

Leo, I have got a deadline on a piece but I don't think I have explained the social model very well. Give me a few days to finish up my work and I'll continue with this thread. Marta LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: > > Marta: > > I have been contemplating our thread on abortion and disability, > thinking > about what it is that we see differently. I have come to the > conclusion that > I disagree with the paradigm you pose for understanding disability, > one which >snip

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 27 16:24:04 PDT 2001

944 posner on bush v. gore (was RE: Ethical foundations of the left) -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: > > However, we were talking about Posner as a legal theorist. > I'm sorry. I couldn't resist providing the info on Posner and disability rights. However, it does offer insight as to how social justice is thwarted by legal posturing. Marta

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 26 15:09:44 PDT 2001

945 posner on bush v. gore (was RE: Ethical foundations of the left) -- rank: 1000

One decision Posner made was to rule against a disabled worker who asked for a $150 reasonable accommodation from her employer so she could continue to work. He is a pro-business ass. Marta Kirsten Neilsen wrote: > > justin wrote of posner: > > > He's contrarian and likes to take shocking positions. I think he's usually > a > > very good judge, and he's the leading legal theorist in America. It's hard > > for me to see how anyone could defend Bush v. Gore, which I ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 26 10:54:29 PDT 2001