SOCIOL 2CC3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intellectual Disability, Social Constructionism, Menopause
8 Mar 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Involves re-def and conceptualization of behaviours or conditions as medical conditions. Activities once understood as sinful and criminal become conceptualized as sickness and pathology. Shift resulted in change of agents responsible for dealing with and controlling deviance. From priests and police/courts to doctors and psychiatrists. Also resulted in change of types of sanctions used to control. From penance and punishment to treatment and rehabilitation. Mid 1800s in europe and north america. Rise in prestige, dominance and increasing jurisdiction of medical profession. Regulation of doctors; need licence; gain control of medical market. Regular" doctors becoming better educated and trained. Also becoming politically powerful ama (inform policy) Individuals came from social & economic elite classes (need to be wealthy to go to school) Were successful in creating a monopoly over health care. Excluded all other competing health care practitioners. Able to claim complete jurisdiction over the body (cut open, insert or take out, prescribe meds)
