Peter Conrad, Deviance And Medicalization: From Badness To Sickness Quotes
Reality" is defined not as something that exists "out there" for the scientist or anyone else to discover but as a social construction that emerges from and is sustained by social interaction.
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...[D]eviance is an attributed designation rather than something inherent in individuals...
Illnesses represent human judgments of conditions that exist in the natural world. They are essentially social constructions - products of our own creation.
What each culture views as the cause of madness is dependent on its world view.