HSS 2321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Naturopathy, Optometry, Medicalization

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: HSS 2321
• Professor: Kirsti Bissada

Document Summary

In the last century or so, the medical doctor has become the archetypal profession. As a profession, medicine is relatively new. The status of the doctor reflects and reinforces the processes of medicalization and biomedicalization. Characteristics of the medical profession are similar to the traits of a profession suggested by goode (1960). Professions are social constructions that result from a process through which various occupational groups progress or aspire to progress over time under various conditions (see table 11. 1) Steps to becoming a professional: members engage in full-time work, they establish a relationship with a training/education program, they establish an association, they gain legal status, they construct a code of ethics. Subordination, limitation, and exclusion in the medical labour force. The medical profession successfully consolidated its position as the provider of medical care by restricting the scope of the work of other types of practitioners. This ideology has served the medical profession well.