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Article: Victimizing the 'Victims' - Political correctness and the culture of victimology have been common on campuses for years, but now politically correct medicine is infecting the medical profession.(Sally Satel: How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine)(Review)
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- The World and I
- Article date:
- September 1, 2001
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Betsy Hart is a syndicated columnist for the Scripps Howard News Service.
Book Info:PC, MD
How Political Correctness Is Corrupting Medicine
Dr. Sally Satel
Publisher:New York: Basic Books, 2001
233 pp., $27.00
Think "political correctness" and one immediately conjures up images of the college campus, the network or newspaper newsroom, or perhaps a sensitivity training class at a major university. One might even be tempted to dismiss PC thinking, the philosophy that extols victimology while denigrating fixed truths, as ludicrous but ultimately relatively harmless, at least to those saner elements of the population who don't indulge in it.
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