COMM 3250U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Biopower, Medicalization, Stoicism
21 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
1. Human Sexuality
Technology, Health, Education
Status and Stigma: Institutionalism
Health and sexuality relate to one another in a variety of ways è How?
Sexuality constructed through health care, education, technology – institutionalism
1. What is an institution?
Family: most widely known and established social institution
2. Structure of the family, norms, and biopower
Stigma -- health, illness, and sexuality
3. Social factors are important in experiences of health and sexuality
4. Clinical terms and medical discourses – learning and teaching
5. Where do people interact with medical discourses?
6. Taken for granted: sex identity as natural, perceptions of bodies and health are
intertwined
7. Ex: Intersexed: clinically abnormal àuniformly seen as “crisis” in medical community
8. Heteronormative expectations of normal and natural genitalia
9. How do institutions influence, challenge, and reinforce ideas about sexuality?
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Document Summary
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