SOSA 2503 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michel Foucault, Hand Washing, Victim Blaming
17 Apr 2016
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The relationship between the healthy, the normal and the good. A main assumption with the biomedical model is that being healthy is what is normal. Idea of statistically normal - the average. Qualitative sense of normal - sense of what is functional and working properly (not deviant body) How the ideas of what is normal with regards to health becomes a sort of moral. Develops concepts that help us think of the world of morality with health issues. They try to get us to do good and to do as were told (be governable) Responsibilisation - if you"re going to moralize about things you have to say someone is responsible. Health and civic duty - hand washing (you"re a bad citizen if you don"t wash your hands) Most people now do not smoke, beforehand people always smoked everywhere. They"re qualitatively abnormal - putting smoke into your lungs is deviant because it"s not a normal thing to do.
