SOC243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Menarche, Breast Pain, Late Modernity

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31 Jan 2013
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Control over access to in change in institutional in conceptual medicalization results. Lecture 4: the macro context of medicalization & demedicalization. Macro processes, political economy, interest groups ,social conflict, social control. How does science and medicalization change over time. A process whereby more and more of life comes to be of concern to the medical profession within institutions controlled by medial professions. Medicalization expands through 2 insitituitional components (a) retention of control over certain technical procedures by the profession of medicine (b)retention of the profession(e. g. through licensing&schooling) People become more and more attached to the institution. Text: the process through which a condition of behavior becomes defined as a medical problem, or though which the definition of an illness is broadened. Zola: the expansion of what in life is deemed relevant to the good practice of medicine. Defining a problem(form of deviance) in medical terms, developing arguments and evidence that a social problem should be considered a medical problem.

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