HLST 3015 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organizational Behavior, Combined Oral Contraceptive Pill, Open Government

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The historical shift from medicalization to biomedicalization is one from control over biomedical phenomena to transformations of them. Conceptual: a medical vocabulary or model is used to order it define the problem at hand, less professionals are involved and medical treatment are not necessarily applied. In the interactional level: physicians are most directly involved. The social control aspect of medicine illness as deviance and medicine and the risk role as the appropriate mechanism of social control. In term of medicalization: the greatest social control power comes from having the authority to define certain behavior, persons and things. The key issue remains definitional: the power to have a particular set of medical definitions realize in both spirit and practice. The criticism of medicalization rests on the sociological concern with how the medical model de-contextualizes social problems, and collaterally, puts them under medical control which is seen as social problems.

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