SOC 2101 Lecture : SOC2101 - Normality lecture
12 Sep 2013
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Soc2101 - normality - thursday, september 12th 2013. Traditionally, the practice of biomedicine has been based on mythology. All based on the idea that treatment is some type of activity that attempts to bring the diseased body up to a level of normality. Concept of normality is a social concept, not a physiological one. Normality doesn"t just include physical aspects, also behavioural ones. Concept of normal is a relatively recent. Mid 19th century, rise of statistical procedures, measurements in populations, things attempted to be mapped and collected. Initiating the concept of a normal curve - mathematical equations being thrown on the population. When the curve is changed, and there are outliers, the idea of abnormal rises. Government and professional organizations have procedures and guidelines to bring individuals and populations back into the norm. There are power struggles involved in our de nitions of what is normal.
