SOCIOL 4G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Functional Food, Health Promotion, Medicalization
17 Apr 2016
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Discuss healthism & the medicalizaion of everyday life. by crawford (1980) Healthism and the medicalizaion of everyday life by robert crawford (1980). 2 new health movements: holisic & self-help. What"s the aricle about? (main research q"s): how the problem of health was realized at a paricular historical moment. 2. the process by which certain cultures deine health and what is essenial for health. The new health consciousness: is complex andit plays on your anxieies and fears as a consumer. It forces you to look at who"s accountable for your health and who"s responsible for all this. Not focused on reordering the social and poliical landscape we live in. Crawford argues healthism has negaive aspects to it: depoliicizes the social eforts to improve health (takes individual out of environment, a middle class iniiaive=more beneicial for people already healthy to coninue to do so. More diicult for lower middle class to start these new behaviors.
