SOC-205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Medicalization, Intrauterine Device, Breast Augmentation
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Society has changed through technological advancements (both positive and negative) Biotechnology - taking matters of biological nature and transforming to technology. Taking something of biological nature and advancing into technology. Main areas of focus: patient as consumer and consumerism in health. Doctor shopping, seeking secondary advice from another health care professional: treatments. Searching online symptoms of illness to self diagnose or to understand illness. Monday, april 2, 2018: bio-medicalization and bio-technologies. Ipads to check patients in, new technologies in medical eld: prolonging life. Responsibility to decide whether or not to live with assistance. Physical assistance suicide: cosmetic and enhancement procedures. Ses (social economic status) impacts accessibility to treatments. Lower ses enables access through public library/public computer to self diagnose. This could be seen as positive or negative. Some lower ses status people might not have access to a computer or public library to use a public computer so the technological advancement doesn"t help them.
