Why the New Name “Deconstructing Medicine”?

To anyone who has stumbled upon my sparse writing over the last six months or so there remain a lot of unanswered questions about what this space is, what I stand for, and where this is all headed. For now I’m using this space to polish potential academic pieces, my apologies to those who find them relatively unfinished. As part of uniting my various pieces into a cohesive theme here I created a new name: Deconstructing Medicine.

There are a few reasons for this:

1. My personal life has been deeply affected by the concept of deconstruction, a term I’ve borrowed from continental philosophy (Heidegger’s Destruktion began with this concept). I deconstructed a fundamentalist religion bordering on a cult, I deconstructed harsh anti-vaccination views, and I deconstructed an overreliance on alternative medicine in my life.
2. It is what I want this space to be about! Medicine is a primary interest for me as I begin medical school this fall; however, I continue to be interested in how alternative medicine is thinking about modern health, always linking philosophy of science/medicine into this discussion
3. The linking of #1 and #2 provides a way for me to write informally, keeping various ideas in a development phase for academic work