Abnormality Quote by Bernard Wolfe Download Open image ““Is deviation from the locally approved norms always and everywhere to be taken as disease?”” — Bernard Wolfe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Abnormality Deviation Normalcy Norms
It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to… — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
There is a limit to the best of health, disease is always a near neighbor. — Aeschylus Copy Share Image
“That it is at least as difficult to stay a moral infection as a physical one; that such a disease will spread with the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“A society that is flexible and can change its rules is much healthier than one that cannot!” — Ken Kolsbun Copy Share Image
“Disease is not simply a manifestation of some physical process unique to the individual, but it reflects their particular lives, environment and culture.” — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“Instead of seeing sickness as a problem, something to correct, we accept it as a fact of life. We’ve all agreed to this arbitrary… — Pam Grout Copy Share Image
“Our actions, particularly interventions, can upset regions, nations, cultures, economies, and peoples, however virtuous our purpose. We must ensure that the cure we offer… — Stanley McChrystal Copy Share Image
“This is a diseased world in which it is impossible for anyone to be fully human. One way or another, everyone who lives in… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
Disease may be defined as "A change produced in living things in consequence of which they are no longer in harmony with their environment." — William Thomas Councilman Copy Share Image
“As a society, we have become so sick, weak, and broken, we accept the abnormal as normal.” — Robb Wolf Copy Share Image
“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The human being must always be central, not the products and objects of his skill and energy.” — Bernard Wolfe Copy Share Image
“They could not all be right. At least, some had to be more right than others. Or less wrong.” — Bernard Wolfe Copy Share Image
An anomaly is not an abnormality. Diversity does not signify sickness. — Georges Canguilhem Copy Share Image
I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
In a noted 1943 Harvard study, there were no cases of toxemia, congenital anomalies, or neonatal deaths among a group of well-fed woman. In… — Tom Brewer Copy Share Image
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet. The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think… — Karl A. Menninger Copy Share Image
From what has been said, it would appear that the possibility of thyroid deficiency should be considered, and if found, should be treated in… — Broda Otto Barnes Copy Share Image
When you work as a day player on a film or a TV thing, like you're visiting a foreign country, where you know a… — Anthony Heald Copy Share Image
Not everything that steps out of line, and thus "abnormal", must necessarily be "inferior". — Hans Asperger Copy Share Image
What we see in this world is a gross abnormality. The human consciousness fails to perceive the very simple, divine nature of every atom… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Looking at obesity without preconceived ideas, one would assume that the main trend of research should be directed toward an examination of abnormalities of… — Hilde Bruch Copy Share Image
Abnormalities in brain function have traditionally been detected using electroencephalography (EEG), which involves the measurement of the ongoing electrical activity generated by the brain. — Aditi Shankardass Copy Share Image
as a physician I examine the dying planet as I do a dying patient. The earth has a natural system of interacting homeostatic mechanisms… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image