SOCWORK 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Social Rejection, Medicalization

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Work
• Course: SOCWORK 1AA3
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Going back to the early 20th- 1900-20"s: fresh off of morality determining help. Deserving and undeserving: help typically provided through charity, medicalization steeply on the rise, rise of institutionalization. The science which deals with all influences that improve the inborn qualities of a race, also those that develop them to the utmost advantage. Francis galton: make people healthier, intentions are positivo, maybe even helpful, eugenics is "scientific . Categorization of people: disabilities and mental health, highly focused on women, highly focused on immigrants .