SOCIOL 2BB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Problem Gambling, Pedophilia, Shyness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCIOL 2BB3
• Professor: Dr. Dorothy Pawluch

Document Summary

Pro-smoking forces (made up of tobacco farmers, manufacturers and smokers) claim: The science is wrong and anti-smoking claims exaggerated. The science is conclusive: more needs to be done to stop smoking. Still controlling just in a different way: medicalization: the process by which human conditions and problems come to be defined and treated as medical conditions, and thus become the subject of medical study, diagnosis, prevention, or treatment. De-medicalization: objective behaviour --> medical definition (disease - medicalization) --> non-medical definition (normal - de-medicalization)