From: "Widder,NE" <N.E.Widder-AT-lse.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Deleuze and redemption..flowers of flight
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 13:42:49 -0000


>And pain relief -- that is relief of symptoms, leaving the causes untreated
-- >is exactly what you have been criticizing in orthodox medical practices

Sorry, that may seem like a mis-statement of your thinking.  You criticized
orthodox medicine for simply suppressing your symptoms rather than treating
them "properly" (though I guess that could have meant treating the causes of
the symptoms).

Nathan
n.e.widder-AT-lse.ac.uk

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Widder,NE 
> Sent:	10 December 1998 13:27
> To:	'deleuze-guattari-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu'
> Subject:	RE: Deleuze and redemption..flowers of flight
> 
> >> > [...] also, as on the one hand,there are plenty of substances that
> have >been
> >> > around much longer than 200 years that are rejected out of prejudice
> for
> >> > medical use - despite having been proved conclusively to be effective
> -
> >> 
> >> For example ?  
> 
> >marajuana has been shown to be effective for alleviating severe pain
> >suffered by people with various diseases. - there have been several
> >attempts to legalise its medical use in Britain over the last few years.
> 
> 
> Ok, but marijuana isn't usually listed among homeopathic remedies, no?
> And pain relief -- that is relief of symptoms, leaving the causes
> untreated -- is exactly what you have been criticizing in orthodox medical
> practices.  Bringing up examples like grass (or, for that matter, caffeine
> or nicotine) hardly seem very relevant.
> 
> Also, there is of course a lot of room for the discussion of the politics
> and power relations involved between doctors and patients, as well as the
> mystification produced by doctors in this country to give the impression
> that they actually know what they are doing, but suffice it to ask:  who
> would trust a British GP in the first place?
> 
> Nathan
> n.e.widder-AT-lse.ac.uk
>