From: Robert Dawson <rdawson@cs.smu.ca>
To: Tom Leinster <Tom.Leinster@glasgow.ac.uk>
Cc: Sebastian Kerkhoff <Sebastian_kerkhoff@gmx.de>, categories@mta.ca
Subject: Re: Dualities arising via pairs of schizophrenic objects
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 10:38:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1RUIYk-0008RS-IO@mlist.mta.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1RTvjS-00036D-Um@mlist.mta.ca>
On 24/11/2011 4:33 PM, Tom Leinster wrote:
> Dear Sebastian,
>
> There are some people, including me, who are troubled by the term
> "schizophrenic" and want to replace it. Mental health groups go to some
> effort to persuade journalists not to use the word in the casual way they
> sometimes do; schizophrenia is of course a serious and often frightening
> condition, and it doesn't help when people use language in a way that
> perpetuates an inaccurate stereotype.
If schizophrenia, in a medical rather than etymological sense,
actually referred to split personality, there would be some point to the
term, and the debate would have some weight on both sides - especially
as the usage is not derogatory. But as it's inaccurate, I think a more
descriptive replacement would be in order.
Robert Dawson
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-25 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-24 16:06 Sebastian Kerkhoff
2011-11-24 20:33 ` Tom Leinster
2011-11-25 14:38 ` Robert Dawson [this message]
2011-11-26 16:07 ` Eduardo J. Dubuc
2011-11-25 4:10 ` Ross Street
2011-11-26 16:45 ` tholen
2011-11-28 20:12 ` Vaughan Pratt
2011-11-29 23:37 ` David Roberts
2011-12-07 5:48 ` Dusko Pavlovic
2011-12-07 13:58 ` Michael Barr
2011-12-07 17:58 ` Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
2011-11-26 7:39 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-27 15:25 ` Graham White
2011-11-28 17:04 ` Jocelyn Ireson-Paine
2011-11-26 15:06 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-27 15:43 ` Todd Trimble
2011-11-28 6:18 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-11-28 14:00 ` Robert Dawson
2011-12-02 15:59 Fred E.J. Linton
2011-12-04 14:25 ` Jean Benabou
2011-12-07 13:39 Valeria de Paiva
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