SOCI 3820 Lecture Notes - Biology Of Depression, Medicalization
26 Nov 2013
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Knowing the meaning of rule and its agreed upon among the people living in the community. Its not something that is define but treated a medical problem. Examples: addiction because it was considered to be amoral but now its considered as a chemical imbalance in the brain, reproduction and women"s health this is now viewed as a medical problem. The term medicalization isn"t a neutral term but used as a form of medical control in out day-to-day life. Associated with the concern that normal human variations are less tolerable and more aspects of our life"s become in the need of medical attention. Deviance medicalization is associated with behaviour that is considered deviant: homosexuality was decriminalized in 1969. There is no answer to this question or they couldn"t answer the question. The drug companies are defining it as a disease. The form normal female sexual difficulties as a disease. There"s a lot of money to be made in the drug industry.
