HLTHAGE 1AA3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Medicalization, Neurodiversity, Decision-Making

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If you did something bad, you were a sinner. If you were ill, you must"ve done something bad: crime paradigm, secularization, looked at actions, behaviours, through criminalization. If you were unhealthy, you were a criminal or vice versa: disease paradigm, medicalization. Identifying and treating diseases, illness or health related issues: women are more likely to be medicalized than men in all paradigms, we tend to see women as having more health issues, women are greater users of health practitioners. It individualizes problems (ignores lack of access to resources, support etc. ) and ignores structural or other influential factors leading to behaviour. Ignores meaning behind behaviour and depoliticizes behaviours: e. g. Involves a redefinition of a condition being medicalized to being understood as normal" (process of claims-making: e. g. Homosexuality, mad movement, disability-rights movement, neurodiversity movement: to challenge notions around disease, health and illness; challenge experts; advocacy (collective movements is now easier with the internet)