I am not sure whether I can fully agree, although I see your point more clearly now. To give one example, we had a discussion about deafness recently. One of the disputed question was whether the deaf are “sick” or “a linguistic minority”. If deafness can be easily cured in all instances (and this is purely a question of medicine), then the “linguistic minority” stance would be hardly defensible. Anyway, there are questions which medicine certainly can answer (typically—what are the causes, can the condition be cured, what are the side effects of the treatment) pertaining to conditions whose qualification as disease is disputed by reasonable people.
I am not sure whether I can fully agree, although I see your point more clearly now. To give one example, we had a discussion about deafness recently. One of the disputed question was whether the deaf are “sick” or “a linguistic minority”. If deafness can be easily cured in all instances (and this is purely a question of medicine), then the “linguistic minority” stance would be hardly defensible. Anyway, there are questions which medicine certainly can answer (typically—what are the causes, can the condition be cured, what are the side effects of the treatment) pertaining to conditions whose qualification as disease is disputed by reasonable people.