Selling the Cure: Quebec’s Parti Pris, the Disease of Colonialism and the Nationalist Remedy
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Drawing inspiration from psychological discourses prominent in Francophone decolonization theory and Quebec’s homegrown tradition of medicalized political rhetoric, Parti pris—a socialist journal advocating separatism—used tropes of physical and mental illness to draw attention to national problems and to position the ideologies supported by its editors as the only effective cures to these national ills. This study takes a medical humanities approach to the problems with this rhetorical strategy to argue that an over-emphatic outlining of problems and the choice to prioritize schizophrenia as a national diagnosis for the ills of neo-colonialism generated its own resistances to the proposed solutions. Of particular concern are issues of sensationalism with regard to the medical and public health realities of Quebec at the time, a blurring of the connotative and denotative functions of medicalized language, and inconsistencies within the overall discursive strategy, particularly in relation to postcolonial intertexts and mental health discourse.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".