SOSA 2502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Environmental Health, Biology Of Depression, Protestant Work Ethic
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How does a disease become a disease. Diseases treated with meds and injuries with surgery. Process by which previously non-medical phenomena comes to be seen as medical problems. Not cited within one certain part of the body: ex. Legitimation: a real thing, beyond individual control, validation of experience that is not your fault: reduction in stigma, and blaming the victim (ex. Particularly pertinent to addiction mental illness you have no control over but require treatment for) Social control: medicine acts as an agent of social control and through medicalization we define behaviours and types of people of needing medical surveillance to reign them in. Adhd: creation of disease to provide the market for a drug, when a product does not take off in one market, it is marketed for a different reason/treatment /disorder nothing to stop this from being done.