No references, no nothing - to him it’s self-explanatory. Rapists and child abusers, the nuclear family is under attack. In an artificial atmosphere of suspicion and fear, createdīy feminists who see all men as potential sexual harassers, ![]() And then he does a complete one-eighty, deciding to talk about sexual harassment and gives this pearl: For example, there’s a chapter on sex and he starts really well with comparing the public, medical and political response to HIV/AIDS to the same response to syphilis, explaining the scapegoating and the moralisation of medicine etc. ![]() It’s very interesting to see what he does and doesn’t give references to. So yeah, maybe it’s worth keeping that in mind. Like, “the soviets did it” is a good enough argument for anything being awful. An opportunity to compare them with the fascists/the third Reich? Even better. ![]() This is however very much a book written in the eastern block in the nineties, moreover by someone who was twenty eight when the Prague Spring happened - if he has literally any opportunity to bring up the soviets, the communists, the Marxists, the Leninists etc. I’m not going to write a comprehensive review or anything like that but I have some notes.įor starters I still couldn’t crack the author’s political views - it seems he doesn’t like literally anyone - capitalists, communists, anarchists, left, right - anyone. I’ve finally finished “The Death of Humane Medicine and the Rise of Coercive Healthism” by Petr Skrabanek and goodness was that a wild ride.
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