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View SchemaStructured psychosocial stress and therapeutic failure
| Authors | Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | q-bio/0310005 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0310005 |
Abstract
Generalized language-of-thought arguments appropriate to interacting cognitive modules permit exploration of how disease states interact with medical treatment. The interpenetrating feedback between treatment and response to it creates a kind of idiotypic hall-of-mirrors generating a synergistic pattern of efficacy, treatment failure, adverse reactions, and patient noncompliance which, from a Rate Distortion perspective, embodies a distorted image of externally-imposed structured psychosocial stress. For the US, accelerating spatial and social diffusion of such stress enmeshes both dominant and subordinate populations in a linked system which will express itself, not only in an increasingly unhealthy society, but in the diffusion of therapeutic failure, including, but not limited to, drug-based treatments.
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