HLTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Labeling Theory, Medicalization, Michel Foucault
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Irving zola: medicalization: issued can be defined as medical problems: eliot freidson: critical consideration of how medical knowledge is generated and used. Focuses on the rise of medical profession through late 19th to beginning 20th century: medical profession has become dominant over other healing professions because of political process that eliminated other methodologies. Ivan illicih referred to medicalization as life itself: 1980: medicalization is a distinct area of study from conard and schneider"s book. Discusses labeling theory, behaviors like sinful, criminal, immoral were being given medical labels. After the (cid:271)ook"s pu(cid:271)li(cid:272)atio(cid:374) = (cid:373)edi(cid:272)i(cid:374)e has gro(cid:449)(cid:374) massively: medicalization does not happen without social actors doing something to bring new understanding, women are particularly vulnerable to medicalization in a patriarchal society.
