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For the term "medicalization".

"Illness as Metaphor"

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDsh98OxEQQ] (the video is a song by the inhabitants of Losheng Sanatorium, singing their love and attachment to the Losheng community) By linanne 10 Taiwanese students have been extremely busy for participating in social movements the past two months. After the protest against the regulation on the freedom of speech and assembly, Taiwanese students are now again bringing back the issue on the Losheng Sanatorium. The Losheng Sanatorium is a community like construction for displacing leprosy patients during the Japanese...

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Editorial Team Editor Francesca Halstead is Publisher for Sociology and Social Welfare at John Wiley & Sons.  To submit an article to Sociology Lens or join our Editorial Team, please contact Francesca at editor@sociologylens.net with a copy of your CV and details about your area of research.   Sub-Editors Laura Batstra is a psychologist and an associate professor at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. She teaches psychopathology, family therapy, solution focused therapy and qualitative research methods. Her research focuses on...