GRT 3110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Prescription Drug, Human Events, Rare Disease
10 Oct 2018
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Aging and health: socio-political factors: paternalism in medicine. Empowered women to understand more and have increased knowledge regarding sexual health and sexuality. Three decades ago, information about women"s health was hoarded by physicians and doled out sparingly to their female patients. Seniors in retirement homes may still not know reproductive capacities: medicalization. The process by which non-medical problems become de ned and treated as medical issues, usually in terms of illness, disorders, or syndromes. Once considered normal human events, aspects of aging, and common human problems (ie. birth, aging, menopause, short stature, baldness) are now viewed as medical conditions which need to be xed. Ie. menopause: insomnia (given antidepressants, depressed = can"t sleep) Ie. canadian women have been convinced that pregnancy is extremely high risk. Medical world when we are a patient have expectations. Patient (expectations of medical system), client (purchasing a service, economical vs. medical), consumer (marketplace, buyer-beware)
