29 JUN 2011 by ideonexus
How Society Invents Syndroms
The Invention of \"Insufficient Milk Syndrom\" > Similarity > Social Norms and Psychological DisordersAs cultural norms change, medical science creates new disorders with which to diagnose people. Two examples given here are "Insufficient Milk Syndrom" in mothers during the invention of bottle-feeding and "Social Anxiety Disorder" in an age when extroversion is valued.