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By Sally Satel. 285 pp. New York, Basic Books, 2000. $27. ISBN 0-465-07182-1.

In PC, M.D., Satel deplores the "political correctness" (the PC of her title) advocated by some physicians, academics in the fields of nursing and public health, psychologists, social workers, and health lawyers. She defines political correctness as the assumption that the health problems of the poor, members of minority groups, women, and persons with mental illness are mainly a result of their oppression by dominant groups in society. "Indoctrinologists" for political correctness in the health professions have what the author calls a "social empowerment agenda" that "will divert resources from strategies that really work" and is already "making some people . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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