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When Medicine Becomes Punishment: The Diagnostics of Political Repression
When Medicine Becomes Punishment: The Diagnostics of Political Repression
Powerful institutions turned medical language into a method of removal: in 1989 American psychiatrists requested exams for 48 people labeled "schizophrenic" and were allowed to see only 27, after roughly half had been quietly released while their files still claimed illness - how did diagnosis become a tool for silencing dissent?
In this episode, we follow the cases and paperwork that link Soviet "sluggish schizophrenia" to earlier and later examples of medicalized repression, tracing what the American delegation found…
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