SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Biomedicine, Medicalization, Public Health
29 Aug 2015
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They aren"t just a part of nature since they have another component to it: the social component. However, biological questions aren"t out of the picture. Both of them must be incorporated in order to see everything. We must expand the view and take it outside the realm of just biology. Medical questions are outside the realm of social power and the dynamics of power within society. Science and medicine reflect the social ideas of our times. Doctors and scientists are members of our society and they have a position within it. It is only here when we begin to see many social changes such as the rise of capitalism. This is a form of organizing people for a purpose of commodity. All these changes show the emergence of the modern sciences and thus modern medicine. Health and illness are natural things that exist in the human body rather than from the interaction of the individual in the social world.
