Concepts of health and disease as a barrier to progress
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This essay was the runner-up in the Homeworld Ideas writing contest. To read it on the Homeworld website, click here. We tend to think of health in discrete terms. Either you’re healthy, or you’re sick. Similarly, we put diseases into neat-seeming categories: cancer, arthritis, epilepsy, hypertension, psoriasis, and so on. Yet, our categorical frameworks and language — how we think and talk about disease — are mental shortcuts that may actually be holding us back.
Concepts of health and disease as a barrier to progress
Concepts of health and disease as a barrier…
Concepts of health and disease as a barrier to progress
This essay was the runner-up in the Homeworld Ideas writing contest. To read it on the Homeworld website, click here. We tend to think of health in discrete terms. Either you’re healthy, or you’re sick. Similarly, we put diseases into neat-seeming categories: cancer, arthritis, epilepsy, hypertension, psoriasis, and so on. Yet, our categorical frameworks and language — how we think and talk about disease — are mental shortcuts that may actually be holding us back.