SOCI 3P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: California Proposition 187, Ontario Health Insurance Plan, Affordable Housing
13 Jan 2016
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Sexual regulation through medicalization: the regulation of ideas about sexualities/body through treating them as medical problems; only medical system has the authority to study, diagnose, or treat. Orgasm: sexual climax the peak of sexual response includes feelings of intense pleasure. In women, one or multiple orgasms possible; penetration not necessary; stimulation of clitoris is . Central question for this class on sexual regulation: In the name of public health: eugenics positive & negative. Positive: to improve human stock" through altering the environment, especially for childhood. Universal pre-school & foster care if necessary. Affordable housing, basic access to health care: e. g. vacines in schools. Negative: to improve human stock" through breeding out defective" people. Sterilization of un-desirable" population so they would not reproduce. In nazi germany: deportation to concentration camps. Eugenic beliefs encouraged the idea that intelligence mental health, criminality, all genetically determined. Scientific" gloss justified common racial/class stereotypes, i. e. that poor,
