SOC 346 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Sexual Addiction, Sick Role, Resource Allocation
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Contingent nature of diagnosis (1) e. g. , intimate partner violence. Review pros and cons of medicalization by conrad. Jutel notes that diagnoses are constructed and relative to society. This means they are socially constructed and they"re relative: history, politics, etc. } conrad talks about how medicalization is a collective action and they need people to advocate these reasons. They"re opposites but they define each other and are intimately related with each other. People want to get their official diagnosis to be covered by insurance. Prognosis - the treatment plan that looks at the trajectory of the illness: society, cultural work of diagnosis, authorizes (medical) social control. Medicalization basics: process, (cid:1445)degrees(cid:1446) minimal maximal, levels, definition (1) interactional (2) institutional (a) can be woven into the process of an institution (b) it can become its own institution. Part of the authority medical professionals have is to diagnose patients.