HLSC 2P21 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Medicalization, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Consumerism
19 Apr 2017
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Work arrangements and social relations of the various personnel providing health and illness care, both formal and informal. Contemporary divisions: no regulated ways in which these occupations provided care, and who provided what, things changed certain professions gained more credibility, variety, etc, pharmacists do work under the physicians need a prescription. Medical socialization: control the practice of medicine at the exclusion of other members to do it. Functionalist perspective: career decisions tied to ambition, gaining privileged/penetrating access to people"s bodies, maintain emotional distance/detachment, dealing with uncertainty of outcomes of treatment through shared values in profession. Interactionist perspective: students assuming identity of medical doctor, getting through training program, idealism cynicism, cloak of competence/impression management, class/sex/race-based recruiting of students creating tensions in doctor-patient relationships. Medicine is the only profession that is legally allowed to cut someone within the confines of the profession. This separation allowing them to do the work needed to be done: medicine aspect.
