“The disease concept of homosexuality as with the disease concept of all so-called mental illnesses, such as alcoholism, drug addiction, or suicide conceals the fact that homosexuals are a group of medically stigmatized and socially persecuted individuals. ... Their anguished cries of protest are drowned out by the rhetoric of therapy just as the rhetoric of salvation drowned out the [cries] of heretics.” FactsIndividualGroupsCryDrugDiseaseConceptsSuicideSalvationAddictionIllnessMental IllnessTherapyProtestRhetoricHomosexualityHomosexualAlcoholismDrug AddictionHereticDrug AddictPersecuted Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement
“People at CDC [Centers for Disease Control] who cut their teeth on diseases over the last 10 years have started to think of crime as another disease, and using some of these same concepts. It was something that was in the air in that world, but it was time to bust it out and apply it to any number of different social epidemics.” PeopleThinkingWorldYearsDifferentLastsSocialNumbersCuttingAirCrimeDiseaseConceptsTeethEpidemics Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.” CultureSocialCasesImpossibleCivilizationDiseaseConceptsCrisisMetaphorObviousDisorderDomain Author:Johan Huizinga
“Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.” MatterDiseaseConceptsAddictionAlcoholAcceptedTreatedRecoveryAlcoholismDrug AddictionAlcohol Addiction Author:Craig Ferguson