SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Secular Morality, Wear Sunscreen, Christian Fundamentalism
15 Dec 2013
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Biomedical model health as normality, set of assumptions medicine thinks about disease and patients and so on. Health is defined by what is normal normal in quantitative sense = Qualitative= what s good, function, working etc: qualitative and quantitative. Being healthy = conforming to some standard of what is normal. Being healthy means in a sense being good, conforming to standard of normal non-deviant people. Norms of health are form of social control. A lot of connections in culture between morality and health. Michel foucault: if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal; if you are abnormal, then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing . Links between healthy, normal and good and how these links are made. Modern power works through self-discipline technologies of the self .
