HLSC 2P15 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Mission Creep, Toronto Star, Michel Foucault
24 Jan 2017
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The process of placing an issue, condition or person under the auspices of medical control or authority. Turning a problem that was not medical into something that can be solved only through medical intervention (child birth) Some say child birth is fundamental to the species- that it should be in the hands of untrained professions/unskilled/uneducated. The classic midwife was a local woman (man mid-wife (man authority) Doctors took control and it became a medical intention- natural part of life is turned into a medical concern (then we look at the concerns that go with it) Canadian legislation group of people (medical included) Every photograph- is constructive because you decided to keep it or aim it or take it- these photos in media are heavily constructed (have a meaning) Bill blair: police chief of toronto turns from medical to policing. Is it a valuable medicine: some say yes, some say no, rely on others research.
