SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Neurodegeneration, Problem Gambling, Medical Sociology
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Medicalization= the pad thai of medical sociology. Medicalization= to make non medical problems become defined and treated. Md is growing: there are more conditions that is being medicalized, there are as medical problem usually in terms of illness or disorders. Recognize that medicalization isn"t good/bad make your own judgment (cid:498)) want to understand how people decide that something is a medical diagnosis and how it is treated? (cid:499) Prior to (cid:883)9(cid:889)(cid:882), ptsd, sleep, obesity, anorexia and erectile dysfxn didn"t exist (cid:523) known as impotence(cid:524) Characteristics of md: alcoholism wasn"t medicalized by physicians but only. Categories expand and contract: ptsd wasn"t well known in (cid:883)9(cid:889)(cid:882) until soldiers returned from the vietnam war experienced flashbacks now. Some things are more medicalized than others and some are contested people experience ptsd from child abuse, sexual abuse, experience natural disaster, loss of family ( expanded the category for ptsd)
