SOSC 1185 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Menopause, Medicalization

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1185
• Professor: Lee Wiggins

Document Summary

The process by which human conditions and problems come to be perceived, defined and treated as medical conditions and problems, and therefore come under the authority of doctors and other health care professionals to study, diagnose, prevent or treat. : exercising control on the part of medical or healthcare professionals (men), the focus moves to problems, to pathologies and to intervening and fixing those problems/pathologies. 1: education, unemployment and job security, employment and work conditions, early childhood development, food insecurity, housing, social exclusion. 3: social safety network, health services, aboriginal status, gender, race, disability. It is important to remember that the advertising and selling of contraceptives in canada was not legalized until 1969: androcentric bias in research, testing, treatment, pressure to conform to gendered norms regarding bodies has impact on health, risk taking, restrictions on women"s participation in scientific research and medical profession as experts"; emphasis on women as consumers.