SOCIOL 4G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Masturbation, Menopause, Medicalization
17 Apr 2016
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Emergence of overweight as a disease measuring up normality. Creaing a disease = creates categories, you"re not alone. Diagnosis can: organize diseases, provide treatment, help with resources, responsibility of care, posiive efects: new idenity; insurance claims. Popular medical texts approach overweight as if it was a disease, rather than descripive adjecive. Changes over ime in # of references to overweight. Shit in use of word from symptom to disease. # of life problems deined as medical has increased. Medicalizaion is: a problem is deined in medical terms, described using medical language, understood through the adopion of a medical framework, or treated" with a medical intervenion. (peter conrad see the medicalizaion of society - 2012) Medical problems needs to be defined as one. Common life experiences such as anxiety, menstruaion, birth control, inferility, childbirth, menopause, aging and death = medicalized. Medicalizaion is not a total process there are degrees.
