Diseasism

‘Diseasism’ is a word that has been definined as prejudice against people with disease (similar to have ableism is the prejudice against the disabled)Word Spy: The Word Lover's Guide to Modern Culture
By Paul McFedries | "Originally published: 2004" | Google Books, but also conversely as apologetics for a disease or for diseases in general, or worse but more rarely: avdocacy for disease, such as the idea that everyone should have aids (with activism going so far as spreading aids on purpose). Plausibly diseasism as rationalisation of disease is most prevalent in apologetics for the degenerative diseases that correlated with loss of youth --- e.g. "aging is natural;" this definition overlaps with deathism.
Instances of diseasism in the Media seem to be most frequently reports of someone advocating Diseasism for self-perceived religious beliefs.
Diseasism is densely associated with Medical Restrictionism.
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* Discrimination against the ill | World Problems & Global Issues | The Encyclopedia of World Problems (uia.org)
* Urban Dictionary: diseasist
* Letters to the editor | May 4th 2024 Edition (economist.com)
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* Discrimination against the ill
* See: Medical controversies; Disease lifestyle; Disease influence
* See also: Deathism; Death apologetics; Suicide apologetics
* See conversely; Health; Medicine; Biosciences;
* Ableism; 
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