L48 Anthro 3283 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Sildenafil, Nivolumab, Paul Rabinow
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Pharmaceuticalization: aids treatment and global health politics joao biehl. Medicalization conversion of something into a medical problem. Pharmaceuticalizing a medical condition, rather than attending to other conditions related to it. Treat schizophrenia with drugs, not in other ways. Rise in testosterone treatment for men in the u. s. Aging in men is not medicalized and pharmaceuticalized. Adam questionnaire clinician asks these questions: medicalizes aging; as a hormonal imbalance. Men with diabetes are 2 2. 5 times as likely to have testosterone less than 350 nanograms per liter than men without diabetes. Market situation - rather than treating overweight or diabetes through prevention, weight loss etc. Biosociality the way that social formations take shape around biological frameworks and realities treatment, recovery, and survivor groups: breast cancer survivor groups come together, alcoholics anonymous, eating disorder recovery. Social media: blogs devoted to biological identities. Genetic conditions: people are claiming to share genetic conditions, people from a particular racial background.
