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Beatrice Adler-Bolton@reallandsend.bsky.social |
Parsons saw illness/disability as deviance & was interested in cementing the power & authority of doctors over patients. To Parsons, every sick person was an island, surrounded by "the well" & should not form groups together—this was essential, he thought, towards curing people.
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Beatrice Adler-Bolton
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Parsons' "sick role" depoliticizes illness, individuating it, to undermine patient self-determination & legitimacy as subject to the authority of "the well" who could lead the sick back to society (if they were deserving) preventing sick/disabled ppl from building power together
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