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The social construction of Tourette's syndrome. Many thanks to Rob for agreeing to come along and to lead a discussion about his PhD research into the social construction of Tourette's syndrome. This turned out to be a thoroughly enjoyable and extremely informative session. After giving us all some idea of how the mainstream constructs Tourette's and how it has been pathologised and medicalised, Rob went on to explain how he is involved in an anthropologically grounded study of people in Britain and Holland, who live with the 'symptoms' of Tourette's on a daily basis. His overall aim, once he's collected enough material, is to subject this stuff to a Foucauldian style discourse analysis in order to show how Tourette's has, historically, come to be what it is said to be today.