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    It is not the case that Szasz and Wakefield both argue that the medical model gains its normative force precisely from its commitment to value-free, structural pathology—not functional or representational failure.

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    • 1.No structural description is truly value-free; what counts as 'pathology' always involves implicit normative choices about bodies.
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    • 2.Many genuine diseases (e.g., depression, diabetes) lack clear structural markers yet respond to medical intervention measurably.
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    • 3.Isolating structural pathology from function misses how disease actually harms people—through impaired capacities, not tissues alone.
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    • 1.Value-free structural criteria (e.g., lesions, biomarkers) avoid imposing subjective cultural norms about what counts as disease.
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    • 2.Medical authority gains legitimacy only when grounded in objective pathology, not contestable judgments about function or representation.
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    • 3.Functional definitions of illness risk medicalizing normal variation or social deviance under the guise of science.
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