SOSC 2110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Biomedicine, Total Institution, Erving Goffman

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The x-ray concepts: technology, professionalism, biomedicine, power, the gaze, strickler reading, life support, conquest of life, total institution. First technology invented by william roetgen in 1895. First used as a fad by married women who took pictures of their rings on their hands & sent it to their husbands. As a medical technology creates new professions in western biomedicine, & changing pre existing hierarchies among professionals. Now patients had to go see the doctors(x-ray was to large to transport it to each home)/how we change diagnosis/need for western biomedicine. Doctors used to heal with touch now that they have all this technology, now there is a distance which changes the relationship. Our western biomedicine system is obsessed with using technology to prolong life to all cost/ keep him alive far longer than his quality of life, just to have more quantity :callaghan.

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