INT 902 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Stethoscope, Medicalization, Utopia
29 Nov 2017
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Industrial revolution: (cid:587)s ps of fools(cid:588) europeans would gat er t ose deemed (cid:587)mad and bad(cid:588) Place them on l arge ships and cast the ships adrift. Ship was not allowed to dock at any port. Believed that they eventually perished from hunger, thirst, or disease. Lots of poor people due to low paying factory work. Poor laws created 2 categories of poor people. Fear of people pretending to be disabled to access support. Capacity to work might be measured more reliably by medical officials. During 19th century- new scientific innovations including microscope, x-ray, and stethoscope: make it possible to locate disease and sickness within body, prove presence of illness. Gov granted medical science the power to define and classify sickness/disability: gatekeeper for disability benefits, have narrow def n t ons of w o (cid:587)counts(cid:588) as d sabled. Medicine positioned at important time in history to assume social & political role of determining eligibility for social benefits and welfare.
