SOC382 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Social Constructionism, Liposuction, Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis
7 Nov 2016
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Lecture 9: the body and the pursuit of health (mar. What is new = way medicine intervene to change how we think about our bodies and. Typically treated illness and health as a dichotomy. Switching from social constructionism to a subclass: post-modern perspective (not binary) Exp: tattoos in past = id with group or occupation; but now used to express who we are. Diets = changing body shape; nothing unusual in transforming our bodies for health = not new ho(cid:449) (cid:449)e use the te(cid:272)h(cid:374)ology to pursue idea of (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g (cid:862)(cid:373)ore healthy (cid:894)(cid:448)aguely defi(cid:374)ed(cid:895)(cid:863) Medical advances have dramatically increased our ability to transform our bodies fundamental changes of meaning of what is a human or body and what point we transgress a threshold a border of what it means to be human. These transformations render increasingly problematic the very nature and boundaries of our bodies. Application of these medical tech in goal of producing healthier self creating.
