SOC483Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Medicalization, Mary Douglas
Document Summary
Rick mayes and allan horwitz, dsm-iii and the revolution in the classification of. Mental illness, journal of the history of the behavioral sciences 41 (2005): 249-267. Karen cerulo, institutionalizing right, wrong, and undecided, chapter 4 in. Order related to mary douglas, levi-strauss (classification system) and geertz (first order) Wuthnow piggy back determined by society"s moral order moral stability and dominating traditional tools. Problems with both models though when we use cerulo. Swidler"s falls apart when war times conventional sequence still follow. When unsettled and morally inconsistent when traditional narrative may be broken. Everyone has mental illness (neurotic) to major psychotic. Each symptom connected to deep psychological process. Problems overly scientific and over ambitious some issues with past dsm. So dsm"s are concerned with classification orders. Symptom based model let pharmaceuticals target certain illnesses. Institutional organization controlling on people with memos etc. confining cultural toolkits.
