SOCI 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Margaret Sanger, Testicular Cancer, Medicalization
5 May 2018
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Lecture 18 – February 20th
• Midterm
o 25 multiple choice and 3 short answer, we pick 2
▪ 1 point for each M/C, 5 for each short answer
o Much more on lecture than on readings
o If there is a question about the reading it will be about general concepts
o No statistics, no dates or years
o Guest lecture is fair game
Review
• Sanger and birth control movement
o Margaret Sanger was interested in giving women birth control but was
paired with the eugenics movement
• Intersex reading
o If you have undescended testes then there is a higher chance that you would
get testicular cancer, but only later on in your life
• Gender and medicalization
o Back in Victorian times, women’s problems were all seen to be in their head
▪ The first kinds of medicalization that existed was the
psychologicalization of women’s bodies because they believed that
women were crazy
o Medicalization of women’s problems, physiological aspects of women’s
problems as medical problems
▪ Childbirth
• Exposure hypothesis and vulnerability hypothesis
o Understanding this combinations of biology and culture that is going on
o Could be the root of what we are seeing
o By studying it together we get new theories
o Bird and Reiker – new theories for how we think about this
o Depression and muscle mass
▪ Biological explanations can amplify issues that are going on
• One-two punch
o Idea that we use technology to solve one problem, but then we need to use
more technology to solve the problems that arise from the first problem
▪ We forget that it was a man made problem
o Example: we build a damn because it is better for us in some way, but then
we realize that the salmon can’t reproduce so we start to use other
technological solutions to try and fix that problem and so on and so forth
o First punch bringing them into the hospital to begin with? Or is it the
epidural?
• Medicalization
o Maximize our lives in general – Viagra
o Using them gives us a higher quality of life
• Don’t need to know specific medical names of the drugs
• Caster Semenya
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