SOC346H5 Lecture : Oct 1
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For example, mothers against drunk driving, monitoring drunk drivers, push initiation lock (device that is put in the car where a person has to blow their breadth into to determine if they have drank too much alcohol: medical discourse is social, where doctors are human beings, and are often function of research development, and build on the assumption that, in the case of medicine, actually shapes the boundaries of normal and deviance, the more we know about the human body is what can be seen as normal body or what is deviant or what is not, look at the ability to access care, and not everybody who is sick or has a problem cannot access it. Cultural meaning of illness: the language we use to describe individuals has different kinds of conditions, difficult for people who have stigmatization especially when it is negative, or contested disorder where people think it is in their head and not in their body.
