ANTC61H3 Lecture Notes - Ivan Illich, Pharmaceutical Industry, Social Constructionism
Document Summary
Peter conrad: medicalization is more driven by commercial and profit now, medical and market interest. Process of transforming non-medicalization issues that matters of health and well-being: e. g. doctor testing for your blood pressure in solution to stress. Doctors and their disease categorize, society and its intrinsic desire to label and have solution to illness, big pharma and markets to sell more medicine. Drugs work: recognition as a disease and ways of treating them and they can actually be cured, e. g. viagara, medicalization of alzheimer"s or dementia. / power of doctors if you know how to treat your disease, if you know what medication = you can destabilize if you know you can diagnose your own illness = critique. Biomedicine intrudes on everyday life: you can"t escape hegemony, biomedicine increases our reliance to hegemony. Profit drives, not health concerns can cause increased stigma label of disease can be attached to the individual as stigma: e. g. shyness in the article.
