HLTHAGE 2L03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Social Control Theory, Medical Sociology, Medicalization
29 Jan 2020
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Medicalization and biomedicalization - social,, economic, and political processes that produce effects in the social worlds where they occur. Cultural work ranges from building institutions to producing and circulating forms of authority and knowledge in and beyond institutional spaces. Medicalization has a profound effect on our life, it has made us who we are through techniques of bodily discipline and medical management. Another argument - medicalization is too linear, for making sense of new subjective. Another argument - medicalization aligned with social control theory. "control" over patients who were inmates of total institutions. 5 interactive processes of biomedicalization that produce the new social forms through which lif is enacted healthy. Political economy shifts toward a biomedical techno service complex. Health becomes an elaborate negotiation of risk and surveillance. Individual identities and collective bodies transform to include new properties. Campbell argues that addictions are hybrid cultural constructs that convey embedded sociocultural meanings that persist in ways that work against full bio/medicalization.
