SOC 2101 Lecture Notes - Plastic Surgery, Biomedical Technology, Biomedicine
12 Sep 2013
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Soc2101 - sociological approaches to health, illness & medicine. Modern bio medicine/science; something coming into the body to cause sickness. Emergence of the microscope; peering into different dimensions. Biomedical technology is an extension of our senses; the microscope. Decartes - dualism - matter vs. non matter - body vs. mind. Biomedicine is objective - there is neutrality. Sociology does not see health/medicine as neutral. The body is the main site that medicine focuses on. We tend to get caught up in health and medicine and we actually forget about the body as a person. The sociological approach is the expansion of knowledge to health, illness, medicine and how these connect to social processes. Common metaphor relating body to a car. Treat your body like a car, putting good fuel in and going for tune-ups every so often . Not actually a machine, but seen as one. Bodies are all different shapes and sizes.
