At the same time, morals legislation became much more pervasive, though often falling under the rubric of "public health" what historian Ronald Hamowy has called the "medicalization of sin."
Nice phrase.
38 posted on 09/19/2005 8:15:38 AM PDT by Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch ist der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
"morals legislation became much more pervasive, though often falling under the rubric of "public health" what historian Ronald Hamowy has called the "medicalization of sin."
Nice phrase.
Must come from this essay, but I can't get a legible html copy: