3 Germaine Greer Quotes on Medicine

Germaine Greer quotes on medicine

27. Most people die in improvised circumstances of harassment and confusion, whether in hospital or out of it.

37. How you answer the question, whether individuals should be persuaded to live their whole lives in a state of chemical dependency, first upon contraceptive steroids and then on replacement therapy, depends upon your regard for the autonomy of the individual. If men would not live their lives this way, why should women?

38. We can put women on Prozac and they will think they are happy, even though they are not. Disturbed animals in the zoo are given Prozac too, which rather suggests that misery is a response to unbearable circumstances rather than constitutional.