See, that's the thing. We don't know any of that - if she kept gaining weight, at what rate, what the weight gain prognosis for the drug is - does the gain slow down, does it stop, what the impact on health is, what exactly the doctors thought was going on metabolically. We don't know because the authors were completely uninterested in that - all they cared about was the idea that she was trading beauty for sanity and how tragic that was - particularly that she didn't care (which they almost seem to think is an insanity of its own). They mention the word diabetes once but beyond that, *nothing* about her health. That is what is so shocking. If the article had been about physical health versus mental health, that would be interesting and legit but it was about beauty versus sanity! I'd better stop before I start ranting. : )
You're right that the doctors probably were concerned about her health, but the writer of the article wasn't and am I misremembering that one of the authors was a doctor?
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Date: 2006-02-10 05:10 am (UTC)You're right that the doctors probably were concerned about her health, but the writer of the article wasn't and am I misremembering that one of the authors was a doctor?