SOCB51H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erectile Dysfunction, Anti-Psychiatry, Asthma
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Medicalization is this back and forth between things being defined as a social problem or medical problem or both. This expansion is quite string in the last couple of decades having to do with a whole bunch of wider trends. Aspects of sexuality generally so sex, sexual practice, sexuality has become a very fertile area for medicalization. An issue that has been medicalized slowly and now it"s more common. Don"t have to say it"s viagra since it"s all in terms of connotation. You can be confined to a mental asylum. It was taken out of the dsm in 1972. It was considered immoral, dangerous and a psychiatric abnormality. Shell shock or ptsd wasn"t recognized and people who had them were considered cowards. They were then shot and often in front of their own men for being cowards. Posthumous pardons given in 2006 from canadian government.
