HLTH 334 Final: HLTH 334 - study cards & readings (weeks 1-11)
12 Dec 2017
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), against health: how health became the new morality (pp. The idea that health is universally good is challenged. For example, a person is deemed as excessive in body size we tend to say, obesity is bad for you , not meaning the person has a medical problem but is lazy. Therefore, promote the message that healthy appears embody a set of norms. Health is a concept/norm/set of bodily practices whose ideological work is rendered invisible by the assumption that it is monolithic, which is why is appears to be good, and therefore not socially-deconstructed. It is suggested that we should t try to articulate the difference between good & bad forms of it. Critics of medicalization argue that using medical means to solve normal human problems can lure us into thinking that the individual rather than the social context is the source of the problem. It lures human to think one is an object rather than a subject.
