Brian Sinclair Was 'Ignored to Death'
Christopher J. Fries
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Posted 11.23.2011
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Canada
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Mental Illness,
Sandi Mowat,
Disabled,
Medicalization,
Robert Sinclair,
Brian Postl,
Winnipeg,
Homeless,
Ignored to Death,
Winnipeg Health Sciences,
Brian Sinclair,
Health Care,
Aboriginal,
Canada,
Canada News
'Medicalization' is the term used by sociologists to describe the tendency to understand aspects of social life as medical issues requiring intervention and control on the part of medicine. In Sinclair's case, he became stigmatized as a homeless person -- mentally ill, an addict.
