HSS 2121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Therapeutic Abortion Committee, Refrigerator Mother Theory, Gynaecology

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Medical model: body is machine, dr can fix you. Medicalization of women"s lives men have viagara; menopause is like an illness or disease that we need to fix (medicalization) litlte pink pill -not yet approved in canada. Some ppl argue that medical profession causes harm as opposed to being 100% life saving all the time. Can you smell parkinsons scientistst from u of edinburgh and manchester. Wife of alzheimer"s detected smell 6yrs prior to diagnosis. Trial of 12 persons (11 out of 12 t-shirts) Malcolm potts, the myth of a male pill, nature medicine 2, 4 (1996): 470-472 not a lot of rsrch around male pill cuz theres not much interest in having oneits seen as a women"s problem. The social constrxn of knowledge- science is not waiting to be discovered ; illnesss, sickness and diseases are all socially and culturally mediated expcs. The role of funding 4636, rsrchr interests (male-dominated sci and medicine in earlier times).

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