>I decided to google "toxin antonym" to find another word besides > "medication" (which seems too long and grandiloquent). The answers are > so overloaded with ads and come-ons that (at least on this front), the > Web is edging toward uselessness. Jim Devine
----------- You've got to learn how to use google. The search always orders from greatest ads to least on some topics. You hit on the whole medical industry where solid information is either behind a journal firewall, or is dominated by corporate medicine that is big pharma. Doctors in the US consider themselves small businesses and they depend on big corporate suppliers. Quackery is legion. I am presuming you are working on autism. What early disability groups discovered was the best source of information was peer to peer, and that included the words to describe, understand and situate disabilities. The whole goal was to fight the medical model and turn toward what amounted later to the `socially constructed' model. This is a very difficult fight because there appears to be nothing socially constructed on the surface. A wheelchair is a wheelchair. However, what it means to live in a wheelchair is almost entirely a social construction and its central and deeper theme is the lost of productivity to earn a living---all of which leads at the very least to an anti-capitalist conception of life. If you can not contribute labor to the capitalist machine (the social norm) you are dead meat. But notice your compatriots: children, the old, those with conditions and disabilities, etc, a good third or more of normal human societies...since the stone age. So, you can't expect the corporate media (google et al) to provide any meaningful hints, since at bottom you are dealing with anti-capitalist discourse. Sorry to sound so polemical... CG _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
