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One more article to question some of the assertions

Submitted by Judie McCoyd (guest) on Sun, 09/21/2008 - 9:21am.

This focus on the belief that having a diagnosis or Connecting the biological aspects of mental health issues to functioning somehow leads to less stigmatization and more self- and other- understanding may be based on an incorrect assumption. In one of the most recent Social Science & Medicine journals, an article by Jason Schnittker ("An uncertain revolution: Why the rise of a genetic model of mental illness has not increased tolerance" (2008; 1370-1381)lays waste to this notion. In the spirit of getting it less wrong, foundational assumptions must be questioned.

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